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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which researches issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New developments in elearning have enabled people in all parts of the world to take classes online. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. Massively open online courses are commonly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online education organizations are dealing with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations make sure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by institutions like Saint Lucia to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders manage problems like poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education becomes more abundant there is a expanding desire to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these new open education experiments. Universities want to understand how MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this desideratum for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This interesting new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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