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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers subjects relating to open education resources and massively open online courses. New improvements in distance learning technology have provided the means for people all around the world to participate in online courses. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning organizations are having to struggle with now that online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations guarantee that the training provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can participants assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business models are being used by organizations like University of California, Irvine to conduct these MOOC courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle problems like low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this crescive demand for information the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education subjects. This amazing new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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