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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which explores issues having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New developments in technology-enhanced learning are enabling students all over the world to take courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a variety of issues that learning technology organizations are having to struggle with now that e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations make sure that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can organizations be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing necessity to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these promising new open educational experiments. Instructors want to perceive how these MOOC courses can be improved. To respond to this increasing desideratum for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education subjects. This inspiring new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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