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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes subjects related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New improvements in online learning enable people all around the world to take part in online courses. These massive open courses are generally free for students 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 a lot of issues that online learning technology organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can we be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Saint Helena to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage problems like poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desideratum to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open educational undertakings. Academics want to grasp how MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this desideratum for information the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource topics. This sensational new book also studies the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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