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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in e-learning are enabling people all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions have to struggle with now that online learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions make sure that the training provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can institutions guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Uruguay to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more widespread there is a developing necessity to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants would like to be more aware of these new open educational experiments. People want to grasp how MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this growing desideratum for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational topics. This definitive new book also researches the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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