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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which reviews issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. Modern advances in electronic education technology have provided the means for students all over the world to take classes online. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education institutions are having to deal with today because elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can we ensure that the quality of these MOOCs is acceptable? How can participants be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Curtis Institute of Music to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders get a handle on poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desire to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants need to better grasp the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Researchers want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this demand for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource topics. This authoritative new book also discusses the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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