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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New improvements in distance learning have provided the means for people in nations all around the world to take part in online classes. This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes. MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that learning technology institutions are having to struggle with today because distance learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can we guarantee that the training provided by these massively open online courses is good? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can learners assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What business models are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing necessity to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants need to better understand these promising new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desire for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational subjects. This scholarly new book also researches the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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