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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates issues related to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in online education have provided the means for people in all parts of the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are generally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions have to consider now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. How can organizations guarantee that the education provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can participants guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Tonga to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding necessity to be aware of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open education ventures. Academics want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this developing need for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This dramatic new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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