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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines subjects pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New changes in digital education technology have made it possible for humans all around the world to be participants in classes online. These online MOOCs are usually free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that learning technology organizations are struggling with today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so quickly. How can participants certify that the quality of these massively open online courses is decent? How can organizations be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Austria to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Lecturers and many other stakeholders would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Scholars want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this expanding desideratum for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This dramatic new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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