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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses issues regarding open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New developments in online learning technology are empowering people all over the world to participate in online courses. MOOC classes are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that learning technology institutions have to consider in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers handle inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing necessity to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open education undertakings. Scholars want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be improved. To meet this developing demand for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This book also considers the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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