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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent gains in learning technology have provided the means for humans in every nation on earth to take part in online classes. MOOC courses are generally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning technology institutions are having to attend to today because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations be assured that the training provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can learners make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by institutions like Israel to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders get a handle on poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a expanding need to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants need to better comprehend the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Trainers want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing desideratum for knowledge the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also describes the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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