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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new gains in distance learning technology enable people in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These MOOC courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that online learning organizations have to deal with today because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations guarantee that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can institutions ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Russia to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing desire to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these compelling new open education initiatives. Everyone wants to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing desire for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also reviews the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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