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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which explores issues having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses. The latest advancements in elearning have empowered learners all over the world to be participants in online courses. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massively open online courses are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few issues that distance learning institutions are having to attend to now that elearning technology is developing so fast. How can stakeholders ensure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can we certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this growing desideratum for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This gripping new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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