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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Modern improvements in elearning have enabled students in all parts of the world to be participants 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 online MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that online learning technology organizations are struggling with now that e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions assure that the quality of training provided by these MOOCs is good? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle issues like inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning becomes more available there is a expanding need to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Public servants want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this developing desire for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This amazing new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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