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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies subjects pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in distance learning technology are enabling humans in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to consider today because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators ensure that the quality of these massive open online courses is good? How can institutions ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Vanuatu to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing desideratum to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and many other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open educational ventures. Teachers want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing desire for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This sensational new book also explores the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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