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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in distance learning technology are making it possible for people all over the world to take part in online courses. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a variety of subjects that online learning technology organizations have to deal with today because learning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations guarantee that the training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations ensure that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business models are being used by organizations like Eliademy to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more widespread there is a growing desire to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these new open educational ventures. Everybody wants to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing desire for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This exciting new book also analyzes the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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