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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies topics relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in e-learning technology have provided the means for people in nations all around the world to take part in online courses. Massively open online courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because online education technology is developing so swiftly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of these massive open online courses is decent? How can organizations ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like United Kingdom to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations get a handle on inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desideratum to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Trainers and many other stakeholders want to be more aware of these significant new open educational experiments. Public servants want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this growing need for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This inspiring new book also addresses the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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