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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in learning technology have empowered humans in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are typically free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning institutions must deal with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so quickly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can participants ensure that the quality of these massively open online courses is passable? How can students ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle issues like low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders need to better comprehend these exciting new open education experiments. Lecturers want to perceive how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this crescive desideratum for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource topics. This intriguing new book also reviews the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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