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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that talks about subjects relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent evolvements in e-learning technology have made it possible for humans in all parts of the world to take online courses. MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that e-learning institutions have to consider today because distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can participants guarantee that the training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing need to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other stakeholders would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these interesting new open education endeavours. Researchers want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this expanding desire for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This interesting new book also describes the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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