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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses topics having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New changes in online learning are providing the means for people in nations all aver the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that learning technology organizations are having to consider today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. How can we be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is adequate? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations handle problems like inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing demand to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Academics and many other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open education endeavours. Corporations want to understand how these massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education topics. This definitive new book also articulates the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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