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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates issues related to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern advances in digital education technology have provided the means for students all around the world to take classes online. These massive open online courses are generally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning technology organizations must deal with now that technology-enhanced learning is developing so swiftly. How can organizations guarantee that the training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers manage issues like low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing demand to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Universities want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this developing desideratum for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This scholarly new book also describes the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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