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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with issues having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses. Modern advances in distance learning have provided the means for humans all over the world to participate in courses online. These massive open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning technology institutions are considering more than ever because online education technology is advancing so swiftly. How can we guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is good? How can stakeholders ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Miriada X to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other participants want to better perceive these interesting new open education experiments. People want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding demand for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This interesting new book also addresses the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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