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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that articulates issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in e-learning technology have enabled people in all parts of the world to be participants in online classes. Massively open online courses are typically free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that e-learning technology organizations have to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality control for these MOOCs is decent? How can we make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Jordan to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a growing demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Educators want to better understand how MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this desire for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This authoritative new book also deals with the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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