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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which describes topics relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New developments in e-learning enable humans in all parts of the world to take online classes. These MOOCs are free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are numerous issues that online learning technology institutions are considering more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can we be assured that the quality control for these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford Online to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other stakeholders would like to better grasp the outcomes of these new open education undertakings. Professors want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive demand for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This exciting new book also examines the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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