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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes topics relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in digital education technology have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to take online courses. These massive open courses are generally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online learning institutions are struggling with in 2015 because learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can institutions guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Kenya to conduct these massively open online courses? How can stakeholders deal with poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing need to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants would like to better grasp these new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to understand how these MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this demand for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This stimulating new book also explores the most important 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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