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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines topics having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in electronic education technology have provided the means for people in nations all aver the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are normally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that e-learning technology organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can organizations assure that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can institutions certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business models are being used by institutions like UC Santa Cruz to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants want to gain a better understanding of these important new open education experiments. Professors want to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this demand for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This intriguing new book also reviews the controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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