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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in elearning technology have empowered students all over the world to take online courses. These MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that online learning organizations have to deal with today because learning technology is advancing so swiftly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can we ensure that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can we assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these MOOCs? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing demand to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other stakeholders want to better comprehend the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be improved. To meet this increasing need for details the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also reviews the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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