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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advancements in online learning technology have provided the means for students all around the world to take online classes. These massively open online courses are normally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that distance learning organizations are having to attend to now that e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can we be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is decent? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers manage problems like inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding need to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Corporations want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this crescive need for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also studies the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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