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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which explores issues related to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in e-learning enable people all around the world to take part in courses online. These massive online courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are numerous subjects that elearning technology organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can participants assure that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can institutions ensure that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations manage issues like low motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing need to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and many other participants would like to be more aware of these open education experiments. Intellectuals want to better understand how massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this expanding need for information the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This 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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