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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in online education are providing the means for humans in every nation on earth to be participants in classes online. These massively open online courses are free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that elearning institutions are having to deal with today because learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can participants guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like NovoEd to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants handle low motivation and high attrition?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding need to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders want to better understand these compelling new open educational experiments. Instructors want to grasp how these massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desire for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also studies the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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