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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in elearning technology are empowering people all around the world to take online classes. These massive open courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online education organizations have to deal with today because online learning technology is developing so quickly. How can institutions be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is good? How can stakeholders assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like United States to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations handle problems like low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desire to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants want to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. In response to this developing need for knowledge the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This gripping new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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