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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New advancements in distance learning have empowered students in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. Massive open online courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that learning technology institutions are having to attend to now that elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is passable? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can we certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Rice University to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more available there is a growing necessity to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Scholars want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing demand for data the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This authoritative new book also explores the controversies associated with these massive open courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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