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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers topics having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses. New gains in elearning enable humans in every nation on earth to take part in classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are typically free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are several subjects that online learning organizations are having to struggle with today because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Students want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this increasing need for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This book also deals with the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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