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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches issues regarding open education resources and massively open online courses. Brand new gains in online learning have made it possible for people all over the world to take part in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that elearning technology organizations are having to consider today because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can we be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business models are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders need to understand these intriguing new open education ventures. Everybody wants to understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this demand for facts the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education issues. This book also examines the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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