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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that describes issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent developments in technology-enhanced learning are enabling humans all around the world to participate in courses online. These massive open courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online education institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the training provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? How can stakeholders manage problems like low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing necessity to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Teachers and lots of other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Professors want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this expanding desire for information the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education subjects. This scholarly new book also describes the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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