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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines topics regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern evolvements in online learning technology have enabled students in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are commonly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that e-learning organizations are having to deal with now that e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can stakeholders certify that the quality of these massively open online courses is passable? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the issues of poor motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a increasing desideratum to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders desire to be more aware of these new open educational experiments. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this demand for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This scholarly new book also deals with the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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