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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in online learning have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to be participants in classes online. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning organizations are dealing with now that distance learning technology is developing so quickly. How can institutions assure that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can organizations be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing desire to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open education ventures. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this increasing need for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource subjects. This dramatic new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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