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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates subjects related to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new developments in e-learning make it possible for people in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders assure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can participants manage inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants want to better grasp the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Everybody wants to comprehend how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this expanding need for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This book also discusses the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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