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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which talks about topics having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in online learning enable students in every nation on earth to be participants in online classes. MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are several topics that online learning technology organizations are having to deal with today because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can we make sure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can we make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Sweden to conduct these MOOCs? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with low learner motivation and high attrition?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As distance learning becomes more available there is a developing demand to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these open education experiments. Trainers want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this desire for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education issues. This new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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