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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advances in online education technology have empowered people in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences. There are numerous subjects that online learning technology organizations are considering today because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of these MOOC courses is respectable? How can students be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like University of Central Florida to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators get a handle on low motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a desire to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of these new open education experiments. Scholars want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing desire for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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