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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes issues relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in electronic educational technology have made it possible for humans all around the world to be participants in online classes. MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that elearning technology organizations have to deal with now that online education technology is improving so quickly. How can we be assured that the training provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Bermuda to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with poor motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more available there is a increasing need to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders want to better grasp these promising new open education experiments. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing desire for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This stimulating new book also examines the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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