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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers issues having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in e-learning technology have provided the means for people all over the world to take courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are several issues that elearning technology institutions must deal with now that online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators guarantee that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can learners certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders would like to better grasp the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Instructors want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this growing need for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also describes the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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