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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches subjects having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in online education are enabling people all around the world to take online classes. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These MOOC classes are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions must deal with now that learning technology is advancing so fast. How can we ensure that the quality of education provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Peter I Island to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders manage problems like poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing necessity to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Scholars want to better understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this crescive demand for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This exciting new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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