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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in electronic educational technology make it possible for learners in nations all around the world to take online courses. These MOOC courses are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that e-learning organizations have to consider in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so swiftly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can stakeholders be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is good? How can learners certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Canada to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators handle problems like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a need to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Researchers and lots of other participants desire to better perceive these interesting new open educational experiments. Scholars want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive desideratum for data the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects. This dramatic new book also studies the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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