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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses topics having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in elearning are empowering people all around the world to participate in courses online. Massively open online courses are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that distance learning organizations are having to struggle with today because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can educators ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can we ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Bolivia to conduct these MOOCs? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this increasing desideratum for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This gripping new book also talks about the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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