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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that talks about topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern improvements in e-learning technology have empowered people all over the world to take part in online courses. 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. MOOC courses are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that e-learning institutions are having to attend to today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so swiftly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can students be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle issues like poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning becomes more procurable there is a developing need to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these exciting new open education ventures. Academics want to understand how these massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing demand for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This authoritative new book also examines the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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