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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in digital education technology enable humans all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that elearning technology institutions are having to deal with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. How can stakeholders be assured that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can organizations guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of low motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding need to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants would like to gain more knowledge about these exciting new open education experiments. Educators want to better understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also describes the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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