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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent advances in learning technology have provided the means for learners in all parts of the world to participate in online classes. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that e-learning technology organizations are having to deal with now that online education technology is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can students make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators manage low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open educational endeavours. Teachers want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this expanding desire for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This scholarly new book also deals with the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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