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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in digital education technology have provided the means for people all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that elearning technology organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Gambia to conduct these MOOC classes? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing demand to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders would like to understand these significant new open education experiments. Researchers want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this growing demand for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational topics. This new book also addresses the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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