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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers subjects pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest gains in distance learning are providing the means for humans all over the world to be participants in online courses. MOOC courses are typically free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that distance learning institutions must deal with today because distance learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can organizations guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like American Samoa to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants handle problems like low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders want to better comprehend the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Academics want to better understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive need for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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