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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advancements in online education have enabled people in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. These online MOOC courses are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that elearning technology organizations must deal with now that online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can stakeholders assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can participants guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Netherlands to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we handle inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more abundant there is a need to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders desire to better grasp these interesting new open education experiments. Academics want to perceive how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To respond to this developing desire for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This intriguing new book also explores the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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