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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in online learning are enabling people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses online. These MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that learning technology institutions are dealing with more than ever because online education technology is improving so fast. How can educators assure that the quality control for these massive open online courses is respectable? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like State University of New York to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations get a handle on low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a developing necessity to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other participants want to be more aware of these exciting new open educational experiments. Researchers want to comprehend how MOOCs can be improved. In response to this developing desire for data the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This intriguing new book also reviews the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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