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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New developments in e-learning enable students all over the world to take courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning organizations have to deal with now that online education technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of these MOOC courses is decent? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Kauffman Fellows Academy to conduct these MOOCs? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Universities want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this growing desire for information the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education issues. This intriguing new book also discusses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

MOOCS And Open Educational Resources