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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews topics regarding open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in e-learning are providing the means for people all around the world to take courses online. These MOOC courses are almost always free for students 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 several subjects that distance learning institutions must deal with today because online education technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the education provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Facebook to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more available there is a developing desire to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants desire to better understand these important new open education experiments. Students want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this increasing demand for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education topics. This dramatic new book also examines the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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