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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent evolvements in online learning technology have provided the means for students in nations all aver the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are numerous topics that elearning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because online education technology is developing so fast. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of training provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Italy to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions get a handle on inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to comprehend how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Universities want to know how MOOCs can be made better. To handle this crescive desideratum for information the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This dramatic new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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