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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses subjects pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in technology-enhanced learning enable people in nations all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are generally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that distance learning institutions are having to attend to now that distance learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions assure that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can we assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Myanmar (Burma) to conduct these massive open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators handle poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these compelling new open education ventures. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive desideratum for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational topics. This authoritative new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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