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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers issues having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in online education technology are providing the means for students in every nation on earth to take part in classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are commonly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online education institutions are struggling with now that online learning technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Denmark to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators manage issues like poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding necessity to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these open education experiments. Corporations want to know how these MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this growing desideratum for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This intriguing new book also explores the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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