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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. The latest improvements in learning technology have enabled people all over the world to take online courses. This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes. These MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to consider more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can we guarantee that the quality control for these MOOC courses is decent? How can we assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Luxembourg to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing demand to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of these significant new open educational experiments. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be made better. To meet this desire for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education topics. This book also examines the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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