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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which describes issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in e-learning technology are empowering learners all around the world to take online courses. These MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that e-learning organizations are having to deal with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Canada to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we manage problems like low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding demand to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these important new open education endeavours. Scientists want to understand how MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this desideratum for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education topics. This scholarly new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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