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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with topics pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. Modern advancements in elearning are making it possible for students all around the world to take classes online. These MOOC courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning institutions are struggling with more than ever because online education technology is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality control for these massively open online courses is respectable? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Université Numérique France Université Numérique to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more available there is a expanding desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders desire to understand these important new open educational experiments. Trainers want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This stimulating new book also reviews the controversies associated with MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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