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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that analyzes issues having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in electronic educational technology enable students all around the world to take part in courses online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOC courses are free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that elearning organizations are having to consider today because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants manage problems like low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more available there is a increasing need to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Scientists want to know how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this growing demand for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also explores the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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