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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. Modern gains in e-learning technology have empowered people all over the world to take part in classes online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massively open online courses are generally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are a variety of subjects that online education institutions are having to attend to now that learning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can participants ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Greenland to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators handle poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more procurable there is a growing desideratum to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Educators and many other stakeholders want to better comprehend these intriguing new open education ventures. Everyone wants to perceive how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this need for information MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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