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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent gains in distance learning technology are providing the means for people all over the world to participate in online courses. MOOCs are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning technology organizations have to deal with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Croatia to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing desire to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Professors want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be made better. In response to this developing desire for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This stimulating new book also studies the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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