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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New gains in elearning technology are providing the means for people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that learning technology organizations are having to deal with today because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can educators make sure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can students be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Nauru to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can we manage issues like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of these promising new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this desire for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also describes 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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