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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New developments in online learning have empowered students in all parts of the world to participate in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that elearning technology organizations have to struggle with today because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we be assured that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can participants make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like University of North Carolina to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more abundant there is a growing need to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Educators want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desire for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This book also examines the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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