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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. The latest changes in electronic educational technology have provided the means for people in nations all aver the world to take part 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. Massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that e-learning organizations have to deal with today because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can we make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle issues like low student motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desideratum to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders want to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Trainers want to grasp how massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive need for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This intriguing new book also deals with the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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