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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that talks about topics having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in e-learning technology are making it possible for people all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massively open online courses are typically free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning institutions must deal with more than ever because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can educators be assured that the training provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can participants certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to be aware of how MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and many other participants desire to better comprehend these intriguing new open educational experiments. Teachers want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this expanding demand for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This book also discusses the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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