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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines topics regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses. Brand new advancements in online learning are empowering humans all over the world to take courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are commonly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that e-learning institutions have to deal with now that online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers certify that the training provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators handle problems like inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more abundant there is a developing necessity to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand these intriguing new open educational experiments. Teachers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this developing demand for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This exciting new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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