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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers subjects relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. The latest gains in learning technology enable humans all over the world to take part in online classes. These massive open courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning technology organizations are dealing with today because online education technology is developing so quickly. How can organizations ensure that the quality of these MOOCs is all right? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What strategies are being used by institutions like France to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can participants handle issues like poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding desideratum to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Academics and numerous other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Researchers want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this crescive demand for information the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This book also examines the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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