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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines topics regarding open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new improvements in e-learning are empowering people all around the world to be participants in classes online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massive open online courses are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that distance learning organizations have to consider today because learning technology is improving so fast. How can teachers be assured that the quality control for these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can organizations guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding desire to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants want to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Everybody wants to better understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this demand for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also reviews the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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