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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates issues regarding open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in online education have made it possible for people in nations all around the world to participate in courses online. This MOOCs book also describes the benefits of technology integration in k-12 and higher education. These massive open online courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning organizations must deal with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education becomes more procurable there is a growing need to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Scholars and many other stakeholders need to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. People want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this growing demand for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational subjects. This definitive new book also examines the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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