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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses subjects having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New evolvements in e-learning technology have enabled humans in every nation on earth to take classes online. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that online learning organizations have to deal with today because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions guarantee that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can learners guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Tokelau to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle problems like poor student motivation and high attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these open education experiments. Lecturers want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this expanding desideratum for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This new book also discusses the 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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