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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses topics having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent gains in online education technology are empowering people all around the world to take part in courses online. These online MOOCs are commonly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that e-learning organizations are dealing with now that elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can we ensure that the education provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can we ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business models are being used by institutions like Academic Earth to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants need to be more aware of these promising new open educational experiments. Researchers want to understand how these MOOCs can be enhanced. In response to this crescive demand for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This exciting new book also researches the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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