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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which investigates issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new developments in online education are enabling students in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. Massive open online courses are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning technology institutions are dealing with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. How can institutions ensure that the quality of training provided by these MOOCs is adequate? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants desire to understand these compelling new open education experiments. Academics want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding need for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource topics. This inspiring new book also examines the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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