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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which explores topics relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advances in elearning are enabling people in nations all around the world to be participants in classes online. These MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that distance learning institutions have to consider more than ever because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can organizations be assured that the training provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can organizations be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Portugal to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a growing need to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants would like to better understand these promising new open educational experiments. Educators want to better understand how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To handle this increasing need for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This book also reviews the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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