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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in elearning are enabling learners in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. These massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that online education organizations are having to consider more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is developing so quickly. How can teachers ensure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can learners guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Netherlands Antilles to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants manage issues like low motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Everybody wants to comprehend how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this need for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational issues. This scholarly new book also reviews the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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