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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in electronic education technology have enabled humans all around the world to participate in classes online. These MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online learning technology institutions are having to struggle with now that online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can we guarantee that the education provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can stakeholders assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more available there is a growing desire to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders want to better perceive these interesting new open education undertakings. Public servants want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this need for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education subjects. This scholarly new book also addresses the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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