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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New advances in e-learning are providing the means for students all over the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online learning technology institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Wesleyan University to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage issues like low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and many other participants desire to better grasp these interesting new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desideratum for information MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This exciting new book also examines the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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