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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern improvements in online education technology are providing the means for humans all over the world to participate in online courses. These massive online courses are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning technology organizations are having to struggle with now that learning technology is developing so quickly. How can educators guarantee that the quality control for these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can students be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by organizations like Greece to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators handle low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more widespread there is a growing necessity to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other participants need to better understand these intriguing new open education experiments. Everybody wants to perceive how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing need for knowledge the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational subjects. This authoritative new book also explores the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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