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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Modern developments in online education technology are providing the means for students all around the world to take courses via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants certify that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like FutureLearn to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more available there is a desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. People want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this increasing desire for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This stimulating new book also considers the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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