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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in e-learning technology have provided the means for learners in nations all around the world to take courses online. These online MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that elearning institutions are considering today because online education technology is improving so fast. How can educators be assured that the quality control for these massively open online courses is all right? How can learners be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers manage issues like low motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these open education experiments. Everybody wants to grasp how MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this growing desideratum for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education topics. This authoritative new book also examines the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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