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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent developments in learning technology have empowered people in every nation on earth to take courses online. MOOCs are generally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning technology organizations are having to consider more than ever because learning technology is developing so quickly. How can participants certify that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can we certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Saint Lucia to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing necessity to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these promising new open educational ventures. Academics want to better understand how MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive need for knowledge the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also describes the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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