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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which talks about issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new improvements in learning technology are enabling learners all around the world to be participants in courses 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. These online MOOCs are free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that e-learning technology organizations are struggling with now that elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can learners assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle issues like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more abundant there is a desideratum to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Corporations want to understand how massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this desire for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education topics. This sensational new book also studies the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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