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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes topics relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. The latest developments in electronic education technology are making it possible for people in all parts of the world to take online courses. Massive open online courses are generally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions are having to consider in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. How can organizations assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business strategies are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing need to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders would like to understand these intriguing new open education experiments. Everyone wants to understand how MOOC classes can be improved. To meet this need for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also addresses the controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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