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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which researches subjects relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent developments in online learning technology have provided the means for people all over the world to take online courses. MOOC courses are generally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that e-learning organizations are having to deal with now that online education technology is advancing so swiftly. How can stakeholders assure that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, Irvine to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions manage issues like low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a demand to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants want to understand the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Lecturers want to grasp how MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This interesting new book also deals with the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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