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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses subjects pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New developments in electronic educational technology have empowered students all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes. These MOOC courses are almost always free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online education organizations must deal with today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so swiftly. How can stakeholders assure that the education provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can stakeholders ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like University of Maryland, College Park to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants handle poor motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing necessity to gain a better understanding of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other participants want to better perceive these interesting new open education experiments. Scientists want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this increasing desire for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational subjects. This new book also talks about the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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