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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in online education technology are empowering students all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that online learning technology organizations are having to consider in 2015 because learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can participants guarantee that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can organizations guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Somalia to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with the issues of low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more abundant there is a desideratum to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Academics want to understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this growing desideratum for details the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource topics. This book also describes the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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