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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. New developments in e-learning are enabling learners in all parts of the world to take part in online courses. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. MOOC courses are usually free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that elearning organizations are dealing with today because distance learning technology is improving so quickly. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can participants guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can organizations ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Meetup to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers get a handle on inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more procurable there is a developing demand to understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to comprehend how these MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this crescive need for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This sensational new book also talks about the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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