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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses topics regarding open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New changes in elearning are enabling students in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are typically free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that elearning organizations are having to struggle with today because online education technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can participants guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Singapore to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations handle poor motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing desire to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these new open education endeavours. Students want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this expanding desideratum for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This book also deals with the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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