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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in online education are making it possible for people in all parts of the world to take part in courses online. MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners. Massively open online courses are generally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning technology organizations have to struggle with today because learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can organizations assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like MOOEC to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers get a handle on poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Trainers want to perceive how these MOOCs can be improved. To handle this demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This exciting new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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