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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which analyzes subjects relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advancements in elearning are enabling people all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning organizations have to deal with today because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can organizations ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators handle issues like low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desideratum to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders desire to better grasp these important new open education experiments. Everyone wants to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing desire for information the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education subjects. This dramatic new book also explores the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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