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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses topics having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent developments in distance learning technology are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning technology institutions are considering today because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can educators assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Brunei to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Universities want to understand how these MOOCs can be made better. In response to this crescive desideratum for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This stimulating new book also explores 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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