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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that articulates topics having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in distance learning technology are enabling people all over the world to take part in online courses. These massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning institutions are having to attend to now that e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can we guarantee that the training provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can learners be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What business models are being used by institutions like Liberia to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions get a handle on low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Instructors want to perceive how MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this developing need for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource subjects. This authoritative new book also examines the controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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