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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that talks about issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern changes in online education are empowering students in all parts of the world to participate in online courses. These massive open courses are typically free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few issues that learning technology organizations are considering more than ever because learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions ensure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can organizations assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like NovoEd to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants manage poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desideratum to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants need to better understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Public servants want to gain an understanding of how MOOC courses can be enhanced. In response to this desideratum for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This stimulating new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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