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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in online education make it possible for students all over the world to be participants in courses online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massive open online courses are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning organizations must deal with today because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can institutions certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like University of Pittsburgh to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions manage low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing need to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these new open educational undertakings. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this demand for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education topics. This intriguing new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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