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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers subjects regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses. New advances in distance learning are enabling people all around the world to be participants in online courses. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that distance learning institutions are considering today because online education technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Niue to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing demand to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants want to better grasp the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to know how these massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding demand for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This book also analyzes the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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