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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which describes issues pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New developments in digital education technology are empowering humans in all parts of the world to be participants in online classes. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massive online courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning technology organizations are considering now that learning technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of these MOOCs is acceptable? How can stakeholders assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators handle inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a desire to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants want to better comprehend the outcomes of these new open educational undertakings. Lecturers want to grasp how these massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing demand for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource subjects. This amazing new book also deals with the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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