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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that articulates topics pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent changes in e-learning technology enable students all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences. There are many issues that e-learning organizations have to deal with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we assure that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can learners be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Universities and many other participants desire to better understand these exciting new open educational endeavours. Everyone wants to know how these MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this increasing desire for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This sensational new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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