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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in electronic education technology have empowered learners in nations all around the world to be participants in classes 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 almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning technology institutions are dealing with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of these massively open online courses is decent? How can organizations certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like California Institute of the Arts to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a desire to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. People want to perceive how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. In response to this growing demand for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This book also analyzes the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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