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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses topics relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in distance learning enable humans in all parts of the world to take online courses. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online learning organizations have to struggle with now that elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions assure that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can stakeholders ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like UC Irvine to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators manage poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more available there is a developing desire to comprehend how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive demand for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This exciting new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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