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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Brand new improvements in online learning technology enable people all over the world to participate in courses online. These online MOOCs are commonly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning technology organizations have to deal with more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can we be assured that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can learners guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage issues like inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing necessity to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders would like to better perceive these promising new open educational experiments. Universities want to know how MOOCs can be improved. To meet this growing desire for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational subjects. This scholarly new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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