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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in online education are making it possible for students in every nation on earth to take part in classes via the Internet. 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 online MOOCs are free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that e-learning technology organizations must deal with now that online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by institutions like New Zealand to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle issues like low motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing desire to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants need to understand the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Teachers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desideratum for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This interesting new book also researches the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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