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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which explores issues regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses. New gains in electronic education technology enable people in every nation on earth to take classes online. These massively open online courses are generally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations must deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can participants guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can learners assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle issues like inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more procurable there is a developing need to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Professors want to perceive how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive desire for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education subjects. This book also discusses the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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