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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which discusses topics relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New developments in online education are making it possible for learners all over the world to participate in online classes. MOOC courses are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning institutions are having to deal with today because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like NovoEd to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these exciting new open education initiatives. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be improved. To meet this increasing demand for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education issues. This exciting new book also reviews the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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