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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New improvements in online learning technology are enabling students in all parts of the world to take part in online courses. These massive open online courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online learning institutions have to struggle with now that online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can organizations ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is good? How can stakeholders make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Peer to Peer University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding need to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open education ventures. Public servants want to better understand how massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this need for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This dramatic new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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