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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which studies issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advancements in online education technology have provided the means for humans in every nation on earth to take online courses. These massive open courses are generally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning technology organizations have to struggle with now that learning technology is advancing so fast. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can learners guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What strategies are being used by organizations like University of Houston System to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we get a handle on poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing desideratum to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders want to better perceive these promising new open education ventures. Scholars want to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be improved. In response to this desideratum for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education subjects. This stimulating new book also investigates the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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