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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies topics relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Modern advances in technology-enhanced learning have enabled students all over the world to take online classes. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning organizations are having to attend to today because learning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations ensure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can participants certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Palmyra Atoll to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers get a handle on poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding necessity to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these significant new open education endeavours. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this growing need for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also reviews the controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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