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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in online learning enable learners in nations all aver the world to participate in courses online. These massively open online courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online education organizations are having to deal with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can educators ensure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can learners be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like UC Irvine to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders handle issues like inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants would like to better grasp these open educational ventures. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this growing desideratum for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This new book also articulates the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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