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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies issues related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New developments in online learning technology are providing the means for students all over the world to take part in online courses. MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that e-learning organizations are considering now that online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators guarantee that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions manage low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a desire to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Corporations want to know how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this crescive need for information the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This intriguing new book also articulates 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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