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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which talks about subjects regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest improvements in elearning have enabled students in nations all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These MOOC classes are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online education institutions are struggling with today because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations guarantee that the education provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, Santa Cruz to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders manage issues like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a necessity to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Everyone wants to grasp how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this desire for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource issues. This authoritative new book also examines the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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