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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in online learning are enabling people all over the world to take online courses. MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online education organizations have to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can educators make sure that the quality of these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Thailand to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more widespread there is a need to perceive how MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants want to understand the outcomes of these new open educational ventures. Corporations want to know how massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive desire for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also addresses the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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