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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews issues having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses. New changes in electronic educational technology are providing the means for people in nations all aver the world to take part in online classes. 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. MOOCs are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that elearning technology institutions have to struggle with today because distance learning technology is improving so quickly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can learners be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like OpenLearning to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers manage problems like low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing necessity to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this desire for knowledge the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource topics. This exciting new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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