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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses subjects regarding open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest gains in distance learning technology enable people all over the world to take online courses. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning technology institutions must deal with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions assure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can participants guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like British Virgin Islands to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators handle problems like low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding desideratum to be aware of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these open education experiments. Students want to better understand how MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this crescive desire for information the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This new book also examines the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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