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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in online education have enabled learners in all parts of the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are normally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that technology-enhanced learning institutions are struggling with today because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can learners make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like British Sovereign Base Areas to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing demand to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to better understand how massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing demand for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This dramatic new book also examines the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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