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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers subjects pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent changes in e-learning technology enable learners all around the world to participate in courses online. Massively open online courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning institutions are having to struggle with today because e-learning technology is developing so fast. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can educators assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can organizations be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Bolivia to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more widespread there is a developing demand to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants need to be more aware of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Teachers want to gain an understanding of how MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this developing demand for data the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This stimulating new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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