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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent developments in distance learning technology have provided the means for people all around the world to take part in online courses. MOOCs are normally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to consider more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we ensure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can learners be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and many other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Everyone wants to know how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desideratum for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education topics. This book also discusses the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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