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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes subjects having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in online education technology have enabled humans all over the world to take part in classes online. MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning institutions are struggling with today because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers make sure that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can organizations make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like University of New Mexico to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing demand to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. People want to understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive desideratum for data MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also investigates the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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