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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which researches issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advancements in distance learning are providing the means for learners all around the world to participate in online courses. Massively open online courses are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning organizations are having to attend to today because distance learning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can stakeholders certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What business models are being used by institutions like Ashmore and Cartier Islands to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders need to better understand these promising new open educational ventures. Trainers want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this desideratum for details the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This authoritative new book also discusses 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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