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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in online education enable students in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that e-learning technology organizations are having to attend to today because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions be assured that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can we assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants need to understand the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Scholars want to grasp how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive need for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects. This definitive new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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