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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in elearning are enabling humans in all parts of the world to be participants in classes online. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that distance learning institutions are having to attend to now that learning technology is developing so fast. How can teachers assure that the quality of these MOOC courses is good? How can students ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like OpenLearning to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding demand to comprehend how MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these new open educational ventures. Corporations want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desire for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education subjects. This new book also deals with the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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