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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates issues related to open education resources and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in distance learning technology have made it possible for humans all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These MOOC courses are usually free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning technology institutions are having to struggle with more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the education provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can participants be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding demand to perceive how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Teachers want to know how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This book also studies the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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