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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which reviews issues pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent evolvements in e-learning technology make it possible for people in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. Massively open online courses are generally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are many issues that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with now that technology-enhanced learning is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can learners guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Lithuania to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more procurable there is a expanding demand to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants would like to understand the outcomes of these significant new open education ventures. Students want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this growing demand for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This scholarly new book also deals with the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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