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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies issues regarding open education resources and massively open online courses. The latest advancements in elearning are providing the means for humans all over the world to take online classes. These massive open courses are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning institutions are having to struggle with today because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers guarantee that the education provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can participants be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Yale University to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants handle problems like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desire to understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Students want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this increasing demand for information the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This dramatic new book also researches the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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