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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses subjects having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new evolvements in online education technology have empowered learners all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that distance learning institutions are having to attend to today because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions assure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can learners ensure that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Relay Graduate School of Education to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations manage issues like inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more available there is a increasing need to be aware of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders want to understand these intriguing new open educational experiments. Scientists want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this developing need for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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