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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new improvements in online education are empowering students in nations all aver the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that learning technology institutions have to deal with today because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can teachers ensure that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by organizations like Tokelau to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders manage inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other participants desire to better understand these interesting new open education experiments. Academics want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing desideratum for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education topics. This interesting new book also describes the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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