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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. New evolvements in e-learning technology have provided the means for learners in nations all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders certify that the quality control for these MOOCs is acceptable? How can learners assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business models are being used by institutions like Jamaica to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more abundant there is a developing demand to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants need to better grasp the outcomes of these open education experiments. Universities want to understand how these MOOC classes can be improved. To meet this growing desire for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This authoritative new book also considers the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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