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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that talks about topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in electronic education technology are empowering learners in all parts of the world to take part in online courses. These MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning institutions have to consider in 2015 because online education technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality control for these MOOC classes is decent? How can institutions be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like NovoEd to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education becomes more abundant there is a developing necessity to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Professors and lots of other participants need to better comprehend these interesting new open educational endeavours. Trainers want to comprehend how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing demand for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This stimulating new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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