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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies topics relating to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New changes in online education are making it possible for humans in nations all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can educators guarantee that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can learners make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle problems like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding necessity to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants desire to gain a better understanding of these important new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing need for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education issues. This scholarly new book also deals with the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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