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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New advancements in e-learning have empowered people in every nation on earth to take part in classes online. MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners. MOOC courses are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning technology organizations are considering today because elearning technology is developing so fast. How can we be assured that the quality control for these MOOC classes is adequate? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Yale University to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more procurable there is a desire to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other participants want to better comprehend these significant new open education experiments. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this crescive desire for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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