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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new improvements in distance learning technology are empowering students in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These MOOC classes are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that distance learning institutions are dealing with today because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the education provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can we make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Khan Academy to conduct these MOOC classes? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other stakeholders need to better perceive these significant new open educational initiatives. Corporations want to understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this crescive demand for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This authoritative new book also researches the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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