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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent evolvements in elearning are providing the means for learners all over the world to take part in courses online. These online MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a variety of topics that e-learning technology institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing desire to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders want to understand these interesting new open education undertakings. People want to perceive how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this demand for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational topics. This scholarly new book also studies the controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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