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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies subjects relating to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in online education have provided the means for learners in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners. These massive open courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are numerous issues that learning technology organizations have to struggle with today because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can learners ensure that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business models are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants want to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Students want to better understand how MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this crescive need for facts the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This sensational new book also talks about the major 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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