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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines topics relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in e-learning technology have enabled learners in nations all aver the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are normally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are several topics that online learning technology organizations have to consider more than ever because online education technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations be assured that the training provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders manage issues like poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing desideratum to perceive how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this growing desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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