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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which studies issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New improvements in online education technology have made it possible for students all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are commonly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of topics that online learning technology organizations have to deal with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. How can participants ensure that the training provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can we ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like UWashingtonX to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions manage issues like poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more abundant there is a developing necessity to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Professors and numerous other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing desideratum for knowledge the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource subjects. This gripping new book also examines 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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