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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which researches subjects regarding open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in distance learning technology have empowered humans in all parts of the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online learning technology institutions have to consider now that online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations assure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like The Ohio State University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions get a handle on low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a desire to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Public servants want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To respond to this expanding demand for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education subjects. This exciting new book also reviews the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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