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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which talks about issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in online learning technology are empowering people in all parts of the world to participate in online courses. These online MOOCs are usually free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online education institutions must deal with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is developing so swiftly. How can participants guarantee that the quality control for these massively open online courses is passable? How can institutions be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Academic Earth to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we manage issues like inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more procurable there is a expanding desideratum to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Scholars want to know how these massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing desire for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This authoritative new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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