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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses topics regarding open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest developments in learning technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that learning technology institutions are having to attend to today because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we guarantee that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can learners be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by institutions like Peer to Peer University to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing desire to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Corporations want to know how MOOCs can be made better. In response to this crescive desideratum for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This authoritative new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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