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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New developments in electronic education technology are making it possible for humans in all parts of the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to attend to now that online learning technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators certify that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can participants ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Duke University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders want to understand these new open education experiments. Scientists want to gain an understanding of how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To meet this need for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also describes the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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