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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which researches subjects relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent gains in distance learning technology have empowered learners in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are usually free but do not lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are a lot of issues that online learning technology institutions are having to deal with more than ever because online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders certify that the education provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Gibraltar to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants handle poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more abundant there is a growing necessity to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these interesting new open educational endeavours. Public servants want to grasp how MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this expanding demand for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects. This exciting new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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