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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern developments in learning technology enable people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that distance learning organizations must deal with now that online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can educators ensure that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can learners guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more widespread there is a growing demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders desire to better grasp these exciting new open educational ventures. Trainers want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this expanding desideratum for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This scholarly new book also studies the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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