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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest gains in learning technology have enabled humans all around the world to participate in courses online. These online 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 are having to attend to today because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can participants be assured that the quality of these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like iversity to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a demand to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about these intriguing new open educational ventures. Scientists want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive desideratum for details the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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