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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which deals with subjects relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in online education are enabling people in all parts of the world to take courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are numerous issues that online learning technology institutions are dealing with today because online education technology is improving so fast. How can participants make sure that the quality control for these MOOC courses is all right? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can institutions guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Princeton University to conduct these MOOC courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations manage issues like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Researchers want to perceive how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive demand for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also considers the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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