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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses issues pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in distance learning technology have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to be participants in classes online. Massively open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online education institutions are having to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers certify that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can learners ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Estonia to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders would like to better grasp the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Academics want to better understand how massive open online courses can be made better. In response to this increasing need for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This dramatic new book also explores the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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