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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which explores subjects relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New gains in online education enable learners in nations all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning technology organizations are having to attend to now that online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality control for these MOOCs is all right? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like University of California, Santa Cruz to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations handle problems like low motivation and high attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to comprehend how massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Scientists want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive need for facts the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This exciting new book also considers the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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