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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Brand new improvements in technology-enhanced learning have provided the means for humans in nations all aver the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are normally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that online education institutions have to struggle with today because learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a expanding desideratum to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants desire to better perceive these interesting new open educational experiments. Trainers want to perceive how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This book also discusses the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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