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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in distance learning technology enable people in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that distance learning organizations are dealing with now that e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can participants guarantee that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can organizations certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a demand to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Scholars want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this expanding desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource issues. This exciting new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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