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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which analyzes subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest improvements in online education technology have empowered people in nations all around the world to take online courses. MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online education organizations are having to attend to today because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can we be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can stakeholders assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like California Institute of Technology to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants handle issues like low motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a desire to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Scholars want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive demand for details the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This definitive new book also examines the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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