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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses subjects relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New improvements in elearning technology have empowered people all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that e-learning technology institutions have to consider more than ever because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can organizations ensure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can stakeholders assure that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, San Francisco to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding desire to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other participants would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Lecturers want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this growing need for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This amazing new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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