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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers topics having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in distance learning technology are empowering people in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. These online MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education institutions are having to attend to more than ever because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can participants assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Thailand to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more prolific there is a necessity to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these new open education initiatives. Universities want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be improved. In response to this increasing demand for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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