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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses topics relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern evolvements in electronic education technology enable students in every nation on earth to take part in courses online. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massively open online courses are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online education institutions have to struggle with today because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we ensure that the quality control for these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can we assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle issues like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants want to better comprehend the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to comprehend how massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this need for details the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also studies the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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