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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers issues regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in online education technology have empowered humans in nations all around the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning organizations are considering in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders make sure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can participants guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Costa Rica to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to be aware of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Teachers want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this expanding desire for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This book also analyzes the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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