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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in elearning have made it possible for people in nations all aver the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are typically free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are numerous topics that online learning technology organizations are having to consider in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so rapidly. How can educators ensure that the quality of these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Netherlands Antilles to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants manage problems like low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desire to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Universities want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desire for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also considers the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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