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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines issues having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in online education have enabled humans in all parts of the world to be participants in online courses. Massively open online courses are typically free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that learning technology organizations have to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. How can we certify that the quality of these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Khan Academy to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more available there is a expanding desire to be aware of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this increasing desire for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This dramatic new book also deals with the most important 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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