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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New evolvements in learning technology are providing the means for people all around the world to be participants in online courses. These online MOOCs are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators be assured that the quality of these MOOCs is acceptable? How can we assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Everybody wants to perceive how MOOCs can be enhanced. To respond to this increasing demand for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational subjects. This gripping new book also discusses the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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