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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent gains in online education technology are enabling learners in nations all aver the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that elearning organizations have to struggle with more than ever because learning technology is improving so quickly. How can we be assured that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing demand to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants need to understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational endeavours. Corporations want to know how massive open online courses can be improved. In response to this crescive need for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This authoritative new book also examines the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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