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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent developments in e-learning are providing the means for people all over the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning technology organizations have to struggle with more than ever because learning technology is improving so swiftly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can participants ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is good? How can we assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Mayotte to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding desideratum to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these open education experiments. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this desideratum for knowledge the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational issues. This authoritative new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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