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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes subjects related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in electronic educational technology are providing the means for students all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are almost always free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education institutions have to deal with now that e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can participants guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can we assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Northern Mariana Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can educators handle problems like low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Scientists want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this growing desideratum for details the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This intriguing new book also reviews the controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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