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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern evolvements in digital education technology are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning technology institutions have to consider more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders ensure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can learners assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like NovoEd to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle issues like poor motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing demand to comprehend how massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Everyone wants to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this expanding need for knowledge the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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