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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with subjects regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advancements in electronic educational technology have empowered people all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning technology organizations are having to consider in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can teachers assure that the quality of these massive open online courses is respectable? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like NovoEd to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing need to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants want to be more aware of these intriguing new open education endeavours. Researchers want to understand how MOOC classes can be enhanced. In response to this developing need for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education issues. This book also describes the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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