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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which explores issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern advancements in e-learning technology are enabling people in all parts of the world to be participants in online classes. These massive online courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that elearning technology organizations are dealing with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can we guarantee that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can organizations ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Jarvis Island to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding demand to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants need to gain more knowledge about these significant new open educational experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this growing desideratum for knowledge the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This authoritative new book also articulates the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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