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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that analyzes subjects regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in online education have empowered people all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These online MOOCs are usually free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology institutions are having to deal with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can participants be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like OpenLearning to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open education endeavours. Everyone wants to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This exciting new book also examines the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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