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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that talks about topics relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses. New gains in elearning are empowering people in all parts of the world to participate in classes online. MOOC courses are generally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that e-learning organizations are having to attend to today because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, Irvine to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we manage problems like poor student motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desideratum to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Students want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this developing need for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education topics. This stimulating new book also considers the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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