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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies subjects relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new changes in distance learning technology are enabling learners all over the world to take online courses. These massive open courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online learning organizations are having to struggle with today because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions guarantee that the education provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can institutions ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Peer to Peer University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a desire to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to understand how MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this developing desideratum for details the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education issues. This new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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