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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern improvements in technology-enhanced learning are empowering people in all parts of the world to take classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning institutions are having to deal with today because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can teachers ensure that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like British Virgin Islands to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders handle problems like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desideratum to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other participants need to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Scholars want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be enhanced. In response to this crescive desire for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education issues. This authoritative new book also considers the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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