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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern developments in elearning enable students all around the world to participate in online courses. Massively open online courses are commonly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning technology institutions are dealing with more than ever because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations assure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can educators handle issues like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this expanding desire for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This gripping new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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