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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that analyzes issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new evolvements in online learning technology have empowered humans in all parts of the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that learning technology organizations have to struggle with now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. How can teachers certify that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Twitter to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desideratum to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants want to gain more knowledge about these new open education experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this expanding need for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource issues. This exciting new book also investigates the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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