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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses subjects having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New gains in e-learning have empowered people in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes. Massively open online courses are generally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a variety of issues that online education institutions are dealing with now that online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of these MOOC courses is passable? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Yale University to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with poor student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants would like to understand these significant new open education experiments. Everybody wants to understand how MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this need for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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