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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern advances in electronic education technology are empowering people in nations all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are almost always free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that e-learning institutions are having to attend to today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so swiftly. How can participants make sure that the quality of these massively open online courses is adequate? How can stakeholders ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different business models are being used by institutions like NovoEd to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage issues like inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a necessity to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Educators want to know how MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this increasing demand for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects. This dramatic new book also considers the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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