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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which researches issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest advancements in electronic education technology enable people all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that online education institutions are having to consider today because learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can participants make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, Irvine to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more procurable there is a desideratum to perceive how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants want to better comprehend the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desideratum for information MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also examines the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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