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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in electronic education technology have empowered people all over the world to take courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that e-learning technology institutions are having to deal with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the training provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Sweden to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a growing demand to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these new open education ventures. Students want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To meet this desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This book also analyzes the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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