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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in electronic educational technology are empowering humans in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massive open online courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning organizations have to consider today because online education technology is developing so fast. How can educators ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can students be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other participants need to better perceive these fascinating new open educational endeavours. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this desire for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational topics. This authoritative new book also talks about the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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