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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that analyzes topics relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in electronic educational technology have empowered people all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning technology institutions are considering now that technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. How can organizations ensure that the quality control for these MOOCs is passable? How can learners assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders manage problems like poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding desire to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants want to better grasp the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Scholars want to understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this expanding desideratum for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This new book also investigates the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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