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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. The latest advancements in online education technology have provided the means for humans in every nation on earth to take classes online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. 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. MOOC courses are commonly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online education institutions must deal with today because online learning technology is developing so quickly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can learners be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like UC Irvine to conduct these MOOC courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with the problems of low motivation and high learner attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more available there is a growing demand to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these open education experiments. Researchers want to grasp how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this desire for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also discusses the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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