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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which investigates subjects pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in learning technology are providing the means for humans in nations all around the world to take part in courses online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massive open online courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning technology organizations are having to struggle with now that distance learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can teachers certify that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these compelling new open education undertakings. Lecturers want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing desire for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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