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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers topics relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent gains in elearning are providing the means for people all over the world to take courses online. These massively open online courses are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education organizations are having to struggle with today because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can we ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Norway to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle issues like poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more available there is a growing desire to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Everyone wants to understand how MOOCs can be improved. To handle this desideratum for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational subjects. This scholarly new book also explores the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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