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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in distance learning technology are empowering people in every nation on earth 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. These online MOOCs are free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that elearning organizations have to consider more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. How can stakeholders guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can organizations ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Kingman Reef to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To respond to this growing desideratum for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This scholarly new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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