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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which researches topics having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in online education technology make it possible for people in all parts of the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are almost always free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning institutions are dealing with now that learning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can we assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants handle inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desideratum to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and many other participants need to be more aware of these significant new open educational experiments. People want to understand how these MOOC classes can be improved. To meet this growing demand for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also explores the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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