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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches topics having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses. New gains in online education have enabled people in all parts of the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOC classes are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that elearning technology organizations have to struggle with today because distance learning technology is improving so quickly. How can we ensure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can participants assure that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators handle issues like low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more widespread there is a developing desire to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants need to be more aware of these significant new open education experiments. Scholars want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this need for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational issues. This new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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