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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes issues having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in electronic education technology have empowered humans in all parts of the world to take online classes. 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 usually free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that learning technology organizations have to struggle with now that e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can students ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Portugal to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders get a handle on poor motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing necessity to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders would like to better grasp these significant new open educational experiments. Universities want to perceive how these MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this increasing desideratum for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This intriguing new book also researches the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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