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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which examines issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New developments in electronic education technology are enabling people in nations all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are commonly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are several issues that learning technology institutions have to deal with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so quickly. How can institutions assure that the education provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can we ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by institutions like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle issues like inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more abundant there is a developing desideratum to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders need to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Academics want to know how massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive demand for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education topics. This authoritative new book also talks about the controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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