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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New changes in e-learning technology have made it possible for students all over the world to participate in courses online. These massive open courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online learning institutions have to struggle with now that technology-enhanced learning is advancing so swiftly. This scholarly volume offer guidelines for educators hoping to create a highly engaging MOOC-based learning environment. How can organizations assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can learners assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a growing need to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants want to better grasp the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing need for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also studies the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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