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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that analyzes issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New evolvements in online education have provided the means for humans in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. Massively open online courses are typically free for students 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 several topics that elearning institutions are struggling with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can learners ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Lesotho to conduct these massive open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle issues like inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing desideratum to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders want to understand these important new open education experiments. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive demand for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This book also reviews the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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