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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses subjects regarding open education resources and massive open online courses. New advancements in e-learning are enabling students all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online education organizations are having to struggle with today because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can teachers make sure that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like United Kingdom to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we manage problems like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing need to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants desire to gain a better understanding of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Teachers want to better understand how these MOOCs can be improved. To meet this crescive demand for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This definitive new book also explores the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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