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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which deals with topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in e-learning have enabled learners all around the world to take online classes. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. MOOC classes are almost always free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that elearning institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can institutions be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like FutureLearn to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of low motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding demand to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders need to be more aware of the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Lecturers want to know how MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this crescive desideratum for details the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This book also describes the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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