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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses subjects relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in elearning technology enable people in all parts of the world to be participants in online courses. These online MOOCs are commonly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning technology organizations must deal with today because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can participants make sure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can stakeholders ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning becomes more available there is a growing desire to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other participants need to better comprehend these important new open educational experiments. Educators want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To handle this crescive demand for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational topics. This exciting new book also studies the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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