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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which researches topics regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Modern evolvements in elearning have empowered people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses online. These online MOOCs are free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online education organizations have to struggle with today because distance learning technology is developing so fast. How can teachers assure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can learners be assured that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, Irvine to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Scholars want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. In response to this demand for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This amazing new book also discusses the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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