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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies issues related to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Modern changes in online education are empowering students in nations all around the world to participate in classes online. These massive open online courses are typically free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of topics that e-learning technology institutions have to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can educators assure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can participants guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a desire to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Academics want to perceive how these MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this crescive need for knowledge the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This dramatic new book also discusses the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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