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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches issues regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new gains in online learning technology are enabling students in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that e-learning organizations are having to attend to more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the education provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Moldova to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle problems like low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more abundant there is a demand to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Students want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This exciting new book also addresses the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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