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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which investigates subjects relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Brand new advancements in technology-enhanced learning have enabled learners all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to deal with today because learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can educators ensure that the quality of these massively open online courses is decent? How can we assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we handle issues like low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing need to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants need to understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. People want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing desire for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This new book also discusses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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