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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern evolvements in electronic educational technology have made it possible for people in nations all around the world to participate in courses 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 massively open online courses are usually free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that elearning institutions have to consider now that elearning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions ensure that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Heard Island and McDonald Islands to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Scholars want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing desideratum for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This inspiring new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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