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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent developments in elearning technology have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that elearning technology institutions have to consider today because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can organizations be assured that the quality control for these massively open online courses is decent? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different business models are being used by organizations like openHPI to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants desire to understand these significant new open education initiatives. Intellectuals want to gain an understanding of how MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this desideratum for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This stimulating new book also deals with the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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