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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses topics relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses. The latest gains in e-learning technology have enabled people in all parts of the world to take courses online. MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that learning technology organizations are having to consider today because e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can stakeholders be assured that the education provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can students make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by organizations like University of California, San Francisco to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders would like to better understand these interesting new open education experiments. Lecturers want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing desire for information the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This definitive new book also considers the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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