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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in online education are enabling people all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massively open online courses are typically free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are dealing with now that technology-enhanced learning is advancing so fast. This scholarly volume offer guidelines for educators hoping to create a highly engaging MOOC-based learning environment. How can organizations assure that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can students make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of poor motivation and high attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a desire to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders need to better perceive these open educational experiments. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this developing desire for information MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational topics. This amazing new book also considers the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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