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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews subjects regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in online education enable people in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that learning technology organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can we assure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is adequate? How can learners guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle issues like low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education becomes more widespread there is a desideratum to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these fascinating new open education endeavours. Everybody wants to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this need for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This new book also describes the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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