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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines topics relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern gains in distance learning technology enable people in all parts of the world to take online courses. MOOC classes are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online learning institutions are dealing with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. How can participants be assured that the quality control for these MOOC courses is good? How can learners guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions manage poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a demand to be aware of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders desire to better grasp these fascinating new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desire for data the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This amazing new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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