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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which investigates issues having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses. Modern improvements in online education technology enable people all over the world to participate in 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. MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online learning organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because online education technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions certify that the quality of these MOOCs is all right? How can institutions ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these open education experiments. Professors want to comprehend how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for information the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource issues. This intriguing new book also studies the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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