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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores subjects pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in elearning technology are enabling people all around the world to take part in classes online. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning organizations have to deal with now that online education technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders certify that the education provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing desire to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about these significant new open education initiatives. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive need for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This authoritative new book also discusses the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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