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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which researches topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in distance learning technology are enabling humans in all parts of the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online education organizations have to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can organizations make sure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle issues like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more abundant there is a developing demand to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these important new open education initiatives. Students want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education issues. This definitive new book also addresses the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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