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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers subjects relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in distance learning technology are enabling students all around the world to participate in classes online. MOOCs are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that elearning technology organizations are having to deal with now that online learning technology is improving so fast. How can participants make sure that the quality control for these massive open online courses is good? How can stakeholders certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants handle problems like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these new open education experiments. Universities want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This exciting new book also considers the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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