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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates subjects pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. Modern advances in online learning have enabled people all over the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that learning technology organizations are dealing with now that learning technology is developing so quickly. How can institutions assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Bolivia to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants handle issues like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding desideratum to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders want to be more aware of the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Educators want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be enhanced. In response to this need for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This gripping new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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