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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in e-learning technology have provided the means for people all around the world to take classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online education organizations have to struggle with more than ever because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can we guarantee that the education provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Khan Academy to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders need to better understand these new open educational experiments. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive need for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This exciting new book also describes the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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