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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which analyzes topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New gains in distance learning technology enable humans in all parts of the world to take online classes. These MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that elearning organizations are struggling with today because elearning technology is developing so quickly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can stakeholders be assured that the education provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Mt. San Jacinto College to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a expanding desideratum to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Corporations and many other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open educational initiatives. Corporations want to perceive how these MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this crescive demand for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This gripping new book also studies the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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