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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New advancements in technology-enhanced learning have enabled students in all parts of the world to participate in online courses. These massive open courses are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that learning technology institutions have to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers be assured that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Seychelles to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage issues like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other participants want to gain a better understanding of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Public servants want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing need for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This amazing new book also examines the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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