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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that talks about topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New evolvements in online education have enabled humans all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning technology organizations are having to deal with today because learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can participants assure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can we ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like MenaVersity to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle issues like inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Educators want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To meet this crescive desire for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This gripping new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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