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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which researches topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in e-learning technology are enabling people in all parts of the world to take classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that e-learning institutions are having to consider more than ever because online education technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators assure that the education provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can we make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants get a handle on inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more abundant there is a increasing desideratum to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants need to better comprehend the outcomes of these compelling new open education endeavours. Educators want to perceive how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing need for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational subjects. This definitive new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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