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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches issues related to open education resources and massively open online courses. Modern gains in online education are empowering learners in nations all aver the world to take online courses. MOOCs are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a variety of issues that elearning technology institutions are having to struggle with today because elearning technology is developing so fast. How can organizations assure that the training provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can learners ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford University to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open educational ventures. Teachers want to know how MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this crescive desire for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This authoritative new book also reviews the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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