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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in online education technology are providing the means for people all around the world to take classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a variety of subjects that online education organizations must deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can we assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we manage issues like poor motivation and high student attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more available there is a expanding desideratum to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders desire to be more aware of these open educational experiments. Lecturers want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This exciting new book also researches the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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