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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies issues having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in distance learning technology make it possible for people in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning institutions have to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators guarantee that the quality control for these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Tristan da Cunha to conduct these massive open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Corporations want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be made better. In response to this crescive need for details the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This exciting new book also articulates the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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