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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in distance learning enable people in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that learning technology organizations are having to attend to now that distance learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers assure that the quality of these MOOC courses is decent? How can we assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Macau to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can participants manage low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing desire to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these compelling new open educational endeavours. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource issues. This authoritative new book also discusses the controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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