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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes issues related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in e-learning technology have provided the means for students all over the world to take courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning institutions are having to struggle with today because online learning technology is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants assure that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is good? How can learners guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage low student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding necessity to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these exciting new open education ventures. Academics want to better understand how MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this need for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This intriguing new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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