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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. New developments in online learning technology are enabling people all around the world to take part in online classes. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning organizations are having to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so rapidly. How can teachers be assured that the quality of training provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can stakeholders make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants handle problems like low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other stakeholders need to better grasp these exciting new open educational initiatives. Educators want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive demand for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education topics. This dramatic new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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