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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in learning technology have enabled students in nations all around the world to take online courses. Massively open online courses are commonly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with today because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can institutions certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Northwestern University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Professors want to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this growing desire for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education issues. This definitive new book also examines the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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