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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes subjects having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses. New advances in electronic educational technology have provided the means for humans in all parts of the world to be participants in online courses. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massive open courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education institutions are considering today because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations make sure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can students certify that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Solomon Islands to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a growing desideratum to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders desire to understand these interesting new open education experiments. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be improved. In response to this increasing demand for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education topics. This dramatic new book also examines the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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