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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches issues related to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in elearning have empowered people all around the world to take courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are commonly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that distance learning institutions are dealing with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like iversity to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a desire to be aware of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants desire to understand these exciting new open educational ventures. Researchers want to better understand how MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This exciting new book also considers the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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