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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers topics relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern developments in online education enable humans in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are normally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online education institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle problems like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about these compelling new open educational endeavours. Universities want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this desire for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This authoritative new book also examines the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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