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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. The latest changes in distance learning technology have enabled people all around the world to take classes via the Internet. 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. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning technology organizations have to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators guarantee that the quality of these MOOC courses is passable? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by organizations like Wesleyan University to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations handle low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing need to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants desire to understand these exciting new open education initiatives. Scientists want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be made better. In response to this crescive desire for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational issues. This stimulating new book also deals with the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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