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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores subjects relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent developments in elearning are enabling people all around the world to be participants in online courses. Massive open online courses are almost always free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that distance learning institutions are considering today because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions assure that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Peter I Island to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations handle inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a growing necessity to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these significant new open education endeavours. Intellectuals want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desire for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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