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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that addresses subjects regarding open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in online learning technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are many issues that online learning organizations are struggling with now that online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we ensure that the quality control for these MOOC courses is decent? How can students ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Twitter to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of these compelling new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desire for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education issues. This exciting new book also articulates the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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