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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in e-learning technology make it possible for people all over the world to take courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online education institutions are having to attend to today because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders certify that the training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can participants guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Afghanistan to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more widespread there is a growing need to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these exciting new open education ventures. Educators want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this need for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This exciting new book also addresses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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