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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which researches issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in e-learning technology are empowering people all around the world to take part in online courses. MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that elearning technology organizations are having to deal with now that elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can we ensure that the quality of these MOOC classes is respectable? How can participants be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Academic Earth to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations handle poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Scientists want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this growing desideratum for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education issues. This thrilling new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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