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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in distance learning technology have provided the means for students all around the world to be participants in courses online. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online education organizations are having to attend to more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Saint Barthelemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a demand to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Scientists and many other participants want to better perceive these significant new open education undertakings. Teachers want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This sensational new book also talks about the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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