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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses subjects having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in electronic educational technology have provided the means for humans in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are normally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can participants guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by organizations like FutureLearn to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Educators and many other stakeholders desire to better perceive these significant new open educational ventures. Instructors want to know how these MOOC courses can be improved. In response to this crescive desideratum for data the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also examines the controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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