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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers topics related to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New developments in electronic educational technology have enabled students all over the world to participate in online courses. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massive open online courses are almost always free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are many issues that online education organizations are struggling with now that learning technology is developing so fast. How can participants guarantee that the quality control for these MOOCs is acceptable? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we get a handle on inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing demand to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Scientists want to know how MOOCs can be enhanced. In response to this expanding desideratum for data MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also examines the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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