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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent advancements in e-learning are providing the means for humans all over the world to participate in courses online. These online MOOCs are normally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that distance learning institutions have to consider more than ever because online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers certify that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Santa Clara University to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. People want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive demand for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This intriguing new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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