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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers topics related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in online education enable people all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because distance learning technology is developing so rapidly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can institutions certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Indonesia to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing need to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Academics want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this desideratum for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This interesting new book also articulates the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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