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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses issues related to open education resources and massively open online courses. Modern gains in elearning technology are empowering people all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that e-learning organizations are considering now that distance learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can institutions guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like China, Republic of (Taiwan) to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding demand to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders need to understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Students want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive desire for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This exciting new book also examines the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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