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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which studies issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in e-learning technology have empowered students in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. Massively open online courses are generally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that learning technology institutions are struggling with now that e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can institutions certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like University of Pennsylvania to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Universities want to understand how MOOCs can be made better. To handle this expanding desideratum for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also investigates the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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