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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest changes in online education are empowering people all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are a variety of topics that online learning technology organizations have to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can participants ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Portugal to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders manage problems like inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a increasing desideratum to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Educators want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be improved. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To meet this growing demand for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This book also examines the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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