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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. New gains in distance learning have provided the means for humans in all parts of the world to take part in online courses. MOOC courses are free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that distance learning institutions have to consider today because online education technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can learners make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What strategies are being used by institutions like Saint Kitts and Nevis to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants manage problems like low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desire to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Instructors want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this developing desideratum for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This definitive new book also investigates the major controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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