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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New gains in learning technology are enabling people all around the world to take courses online. 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 massive open online courses are free but do not lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences. There are quite a few issues that distance learning institutions are struggling with now that distance learning technology is advancing so swiftly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can institutions be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can stakeholders ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Northern Cyprus to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations handle low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding desideratum to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these compelling new open education endeavours. Intellectuals want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this developing desideratum for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This intriguing new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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