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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. The latest advances in blended learning technology have enabled people all over the world to take part in online classes. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massive open courses are customarily free for learners but do not always 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 issues that elearning technology institutions have to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can stakeholders assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Qatar to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing desire to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other stakeholders want to better perceive these intriguing new open education experiments. Universities want to comprehend how massive open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this crescive need for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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