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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates subjects relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New improvements in technology-enhanced learning are enabling students all around the world to participate in online classes. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that elearning institutions must deal with today because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can teachers assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can institutions be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Guinea to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational initiatives. Researchers want to better understand how MOOCs can be enhanced. To respond to this developing need for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also examines the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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