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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which describes topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New advances in elearning technology enable humans all around the world to participate in online classes. Massively open online courses are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that e-learning organizations are struggling with today because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can teachers certify that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can we make sure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like University of Maryland, College Park to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a growing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants want to better understand these promising new open educational experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this need for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This exciting new book also reviews the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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