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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses topics regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in electronic education technology are empowering people in all parts of the world to participate in online classes. These online MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that distance learning organizations have to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can teachers ensure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can institutions certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like UC Berkeley to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desideratum to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these new open education experiments. Universities want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing desire for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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