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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with topics relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in electronic educational technology are enabling humans all around the world to take part in classes online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massive open online courses are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning organizations are having to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. How can organizations ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can students assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants manage problems like inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants desire to understand these new open educational experiments. Public servants want to understand how MOOCs can be made better. In response to this crescive desire for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education topics. This interesting new book also talks about the controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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