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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates subjects regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advancements in e-learning technology enable students all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are several subjects that online education organizations have to deal with in 2015 because online education technology is developing so quickly. How can participants ensure that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Kiribati to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants manage low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Academics and many other participants need to better understand these open education experiments. Corporations want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this crescive desire for data MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also considers the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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