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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in electronic educational technology have enabled students in nations all around the world to participate in online courses. Massively open online courses are almost always free 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 issues that e-learning institutions are having to attend to today because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we guarantee that the quality of training provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What business models are being used by institutions like Duke University to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with low student motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to comprehend how massive open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Scholars want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this developing need for information MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

MOOCS And Open Educational Resources