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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates issues regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in elearning technology have provided the means for people in nations all aver the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning technology institutions have to deal with more than ever because distance learning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality control for these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can learners certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Cyprus to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these open education experiments. Lecturers want to comprehend how MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This book also deals with the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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