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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which researches issues related to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest gains in e-learning technology have made it possible for people all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that elearning technology organizations are having to consider today because online learning technology is developing so quickly. How can we be assured that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can learners be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations get a handle on poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding necessity to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this expanding desire for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This dramatic new book also studies the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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