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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes subjects having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in online education have empowered people all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that distance learning organizations are having to attend to today because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality control for these massively open online courses is respectable? How can students certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we handle problems like low motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a demand to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these new open education experiments. People want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this developing need for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This sensational new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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