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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates subjects relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent changes in digital education technology are empowering humans all around the world to take courses online. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These massively open online courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are numerous topics that learning technology organizations are having to consider in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can we ensure that the quality of these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can we assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Syria to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders manage issues like low motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a necessity to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Public servants want to comprehend how these MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing need for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education subjects. This exciting new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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