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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines topics relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. New changes in online education technology are making it possible for people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are generally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online education organizations are considering today because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like University of California, Irvine to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators get a handle on inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing demand to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders need to understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this developing desideratum for details the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education issues. This authoritative new book also addresses the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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