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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses issues related to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Modern advances in online education enable students all over the world to take courses online. These massive open online courses are usually free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are numerous subjects that online learning institutions are having to consider more than ever because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can teachers ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is all right? How can organizations ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like OpenLearning to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to comprehend how MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders need to better comprehend the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. People want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this expanding need for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This interesting new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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