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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that talks about topics having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses. New developments in online learning technology have provided the means for people all over the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOCs are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online education institutions are dealing with in 2015 because learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can teachers be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Northern Cyprus to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more available there is a expanding need to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Scholars want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this growing need for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education subjects. This gripping new book also deals with the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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