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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in e-learning are enabling people all over the world to take classes online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These online MOOCs are commonly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that online learning technology institutions are having to attend to today because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality control for these MOOC courses is decent? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by institutions like University of Maryland, College Park to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education becomes more available there is a expanding necessity to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and many other participants want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these significant new open educational endeavours. Universities want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this growing desire for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This exciting new book also studies the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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