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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New gains in e-learning technology have enabled students all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that distance learning institutions are having to attend to more than ever because distance learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is adequate? How can stakeholders certify that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Peer to Peer University to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more widespread there is a desire to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants want to be more aware of the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Academics want to grasp how MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for knowledge the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education topics. This scholarly new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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