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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses issues related to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in online education are making it possible for learners all around the world to take courses online. These online MOOC courses are typically free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology institutions are dealing with now that technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can we ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by organizations like Guinea to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a growing desire to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants want to be more aware of these open education ventures. Professors want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this developing need for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This book also describes the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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