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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies subjects related to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New gains in distance learning technology have empowered students all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are normally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are a lot of topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to attend to now that online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can we guarantee that the quality control for these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can participants certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions manage problems like poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants need to better perceive the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Trainers want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive demand for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This scholarly new book also reviews the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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