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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New gains in elearning have enabled people in all parts of the world to take courses online. These massively open online courses are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that e-learning institutions must deal with today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so swiftly. How can teachers assure that the education provided by these MOOCs is all right? How can students assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like United States to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding need to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders want to better comprehend the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Instructors want to better understand how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive need for data the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This interesting new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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