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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores topics relating to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advances in elearning are enabling learners all over the world to participate in classes online. These massive online courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning technology organizations have to struggle with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can learners be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a desire to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be made better. In response to this growing demand for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education topics. This amazing new book also studies the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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