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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern advancements in e-learning technology have made it possible for learners in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. MOOCs are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with today because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can institutions guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Pakistan to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding desire to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants need to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Scholars want to gain an understanding of how MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this developing demand for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This definitive new book also addresses the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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