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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers topics pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. Brand new gains in online education technology have empowered people in all parts of the world to take courses via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These MOOC classes are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online learning institutions have to struggle with now that distance learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can teachers guarantee that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Canada to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more abundant there is a need to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other participants would like to gain more knowledge about these new open educational experiments. Researchers want to grasp how MOOCs can be made better. To meet this increasing need for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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