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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes subjects regarding open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in online education are enabling people in all parts of the world to take online courses. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massive open courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning technology institutions are considering in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Anguilla to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding need to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other stakeholders would like to understand these exciting new open educational undertakings. Scientists want to understand how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this developing desire for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource topics. This exciting new book also reviews the controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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