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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which researches issues regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in electronic education technology have empowered students all around the world to participate in online courses. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massive open courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are considering in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants make sure that the quality of these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Ball State University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle problems like low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing need to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Public servants want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing demand for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This exciting new book also considers the controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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