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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with issues having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses. New improvements in online education have enabled students in all parts of the world to take courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are generally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that technology-enhanced learning institutions have to consider in 2015 because learning technology is improving so fast. How can participants ensure that the quality of education provided by these MOOCs is good? How can stakeholders be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Northern Cyprus to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to understand how MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for information the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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