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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new changes in digital education technology have enabled people all over the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology institutions are having to consider today because online education technology is improving so fast. How can educators be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is good? How can participants be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Vanuatu to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more available there is a developing desire to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these interesting new open educational experiments. Scientists want to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive desideratum for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational topics. This new book also investigates the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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