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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New changes in online learning have empowered people all over the world to take part in classes online. 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. These massive open courses are normally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning organizations are dealing with more than ever because online learning technology is developing so quickly. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can learners guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desideratum to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these promising new open education ventures. Teachers want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this increasing demand for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also researches the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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