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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes issues having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in e-learning technology enable humans all over the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. Massively open online courses are commonly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online education organizations have to deal with now that online education technology is developing so fast. How can participants ensure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can students assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Colorado State University-Global Campus to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing need to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants desire to gain a better understanding of these promising new open education experiments. Scholars want to grasp how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this desire for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education topics. This book also studies the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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