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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers subjects having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses. New changes in technology-enhanced learning are enabling students all over the world to take courses online. These MOOC classes are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online education organizations have to consider today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. How can organizations be assured that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding desideratum to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders desire to be more aware of these interesting new open education experiments. Scientists want to perceive how these MOOCs can be improved. To handle this developing demand for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also investigates the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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