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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with subjects relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advances in distance learning technology enable humans in nations all around the world to take courses online. These MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a variety of topics that technology-enhanced learning institutions are having to attend to today because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can stakeholders ensure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can organizations ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Norfolk Island to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations handle issues like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing necessity to comprehend how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Corporations want to know how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To meet this crescive desire for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education issues. This scholarly new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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