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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which investigates topics relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New improvements in electronic educational technology enable people all around the world to take online courses. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massive open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can teachers ensure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Liechtenstein to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more abundant there is a need to perceive how MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Teachers want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this increasing demand for data MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This exciting new book also investigates the key 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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