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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which talks about issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New developments in e-learning technology are enabling humans in nations all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These MOOC classes are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations must deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is passable? How can learners assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like MenaVersity to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can educators handle poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more prolific there is a desire to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants would like to be more aware of these new open education experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this developing desire for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This amazing new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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