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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that researches topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent evolvements in online education technology have provided the means for students all over the world to be participants in classes online. Massively open online courses are usually free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations must deal with today because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions assure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can participants guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like New Zealand to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants manage poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more abundant there is a desideratum to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders need to better perceive the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Trainers want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be improved. In response to this desideratum for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational subjects. This exciting new book also deals with the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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