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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes issues regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern developments in online learning enable people all over the world to participate in classes online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massive online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that online education institutions are dealing with today because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can participants certify that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can organizations assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Tumblr to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a need to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these promising new open educational experiments. Instructors want to comprehend how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To respond to this increasing desideratum for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This definitive new book also reviews the most important 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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