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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. New advancements in online education have made it possible for learners in nations all around the world to participate in online classes. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning institutions are struggling with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants make sure that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is all right? How can we make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle problems like low motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a demand to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this increasing desire for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education subjects. This thrilling new book also discusses the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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