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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern advances in online education have empowered learners in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners. These massive open courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can teachers assure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can institutions be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Wake Island to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing demand to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Scholars want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this developing desire for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational subjects. This stimulating new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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