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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent evolvements in learning technology have enabled humans in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are customarily free for students 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 a variety of issues that online learning technology institutions are dealing with now that elearning technology is developing so fast. How can we make sure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can students ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more procurable there is a growing desire to be aware of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Scientists want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this developing need for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This exciting new book also examines the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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