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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which discusses topics regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent changes in elearning are providing the means for people in nations all aver the world to be participants in courses online. Massively open online courses are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of issues that e-learning institutions are having to consider more than ever because online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations assure that the quality of education provided by these MOOCs is good? How can institutions guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Duke University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle low motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a need to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other stakeholders need to be more aware of these exciting new open education experiments. Scholars want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this increasing need for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This authoritative new book also addresses the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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