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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advancements in digital education technology enable learners in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that learning technology organizations are struggling with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators be assured that the training provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Cook Islands to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle low motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Researchers want to understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this growing desire for information the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This book also considers the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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