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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that articulates issues regarding open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in e-learning have provided the means for people all over the world to take courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology organizations are having to struggle with now that distance learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality control for these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like UC San Diego to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators manage issues like inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more prolific there is a developing need to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Scholars want to better understand how these MOOCs can be made better. In response to this crescive desire for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource issues. This interesting new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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