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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advancements in online education have enabled people in nations all around the world to be participants in courses online. MOOC classes are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of these massive open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Svalbard to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants manage issues like poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants want to be more aware of the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. People want to perceive how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this demand for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This inspiring new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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