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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent gains in technology-enhanced learning are empowering people all around the world to participate in online classes. MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that distance learning institutions have to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can educators assure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can organizations be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Papua New Guinea to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to gain a better understanding of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Educators want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This dramatic new book also examines the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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