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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates subjects pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. The latest evolvements in digital education technology enable people in nations all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are generally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning institutions are having to attend to more than ever because learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can we be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can we ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators handle problems like low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education technology becomes more procurable there is a developing desideratum to comprehend how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other stakeholders would like to better perceive these open educational experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this crescive need for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This amazing new book also deals with the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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