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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in online education technology have provided the means for people all over the world to be participants in online courses. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massive open courses are ordinarily free for learners 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 numerous issues that online education organizations are having to attend to today because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders certify that the quality control for these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can students make sure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Antigua and Barbuda to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions get a handle on low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about these compelling new open education initiatives. Researchers want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this growing desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education issues. This stimulating new book also addresses the controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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