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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in e-learning have made it possible for learners in every nation on earth to take part in classes online. These online MOOC courses are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few issues that online learning technology organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations be assured that the training provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can institutions guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOC classes? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more widespread there is a growing demand to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these important new open educational ventures. Scholars want to know how these MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing demand for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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