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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern advances in technology-enhanced learning have provided the means for humans all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning organizations are having to deal with today because online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can participants assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants manage issues like low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a developing necessity to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants want to better perceive these important new open educational experiments. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this crescive desideratum for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This book also analyzes the 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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