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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advancements in digital education technology are enabling people in all parts of the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that distance learning institutions are considering more than ever because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can teachers be assured that the quality of these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Khan Academy to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of low student motivation and high student attrition?

As online education technology becomes more widespread there is a growing need to be aware of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders would like to better understand these interesting new open education experiments. Trainers want to perceive how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this expanding desire for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education topics. This thrilling new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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