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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which explores subjects relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest developments in distance learning technology have enabled learners all over the world to take courses online. MOOC courses are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that online learning institutions must deal with today because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can participants certify that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different strategies are being used by institutions like British Sovereign Base Areas to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle issues like inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a desideratum to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to better understand how MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for information the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This authoritative new book also reviews the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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