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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which researches issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern advances in learning technology have empowered learners all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning technology institutions must deal with more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can teachers ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can students ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like NovoEd to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants get a handle on low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other participants need to understand these new open educational endeavours. Scholars want to understand how these massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive demand for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education topics. This definitive new book also examines the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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