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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New developments in online education technology are providing the means for humans all over the world to be participants in online courses. These massive open courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that distance learning institutions are having to deal with today because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers assure that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Cornell University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle problems like inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more procurable there is a desire to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these important new open education ventures. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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