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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that examines issues regarding open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New gains in electronic education technology are empowering students all over the world to be participants in online courses. These massively open online courses are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that elearning technology organizations have to struggle with more than ever because learning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can learners make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business strategies are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we handle low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing need to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Academics and numerous other participants need to be more aware of these new open education experiments. Professors want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be made better. In response to this crescive desire for details the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education issues. This new book also studies the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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