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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates subjects relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New developments in distance learning have enabled students in nations all around the world to be participants in online classes. These massive online courses are typically free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that e-learning organizations have to deal with now that elearning technology is improving so swiftly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can teachers assure that the quality control for these massive open online courses is respectable? How can participants be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Yale University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders would like to better understand these promising new open education experiments. Universities want to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive demand for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational topics. This interesting new book also considers the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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