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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with topics relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. Modern advancements in electronic educational technology have empowered humans in nations all around the world to take part in classes online. MOOC courses are usually free for learners 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 a variety of issues that online education institutions have to deal with now that e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can we be assured that the education provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can we ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What business models are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators manage low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education becomes more procurable there is a expanding desire to comprehend how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders desire to better grasp these exciting new open education experiments. Researchers want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing need for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational issues. This new book also examines the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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