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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes topics relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. The latest gains in distance learning technology are enabling students in every nation on earth to take classes online. MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that e-learning organizations are dealing with now that learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations make sure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can participants guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Haiti to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders manage issues like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing necessity to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants want to understand these exciting new open education experiments. Researchers want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. In response to this expanding desire for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource subjects. This sensational new book also researches the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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