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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates subjects pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new gains in online learning enable people in nations all aver the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOC classes are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that distance learning organizations have to struggle with today because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can teachers assure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can organizations assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like University of Colorado Boulder to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions manage poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding desire to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders want to be more aware of these intriguing new open education experiments. Everybody wants to comprehend how these MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this increasing need for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education topics. This interesting new book also addresses the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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