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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern improvements in online education technology have provided the means for learners in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning organizations are having to attend to more than ever because learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the quality of training provided by these MOOCs is adequate? How can learners be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Equatorial Guinea to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand these fascinating new open education experiments. Scholars want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this increasing desideratum for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This dramatic new book also studies the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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