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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which talks about topics regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in technology-enhanced learning enable people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses online. These massive open courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning organizations have to struggle with more than ever because learning technology is advancing so fast. How can participants assure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can organizations be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business models are being used by institutions like OpenLearning to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders desire to better perceive these exciting new open education undertakings. Researchers want to better understand how MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this developing desideratum for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education issues. This exciting new book also considers the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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