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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern changes in elearning enable students in nations all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massively open online courses are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online education institutions have to deal with today because learning technology is improving so fast. How can we assure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is decent? How can students be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Tonga to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations get a handle on low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desideratum to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders would like to better perceive these important new open education initiatives. Corporations want to grasp how these MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this growing desideratum for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This new book also deals with the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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