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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in electronic educational technology have enabled learners in nations all aver the world to take online courses. These massive open courses are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that e-learning institutions have to deal with today because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can participants assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can students ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Cornell University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions get a handle on low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more available there is a increasing demand to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Corporations want to understand how MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this desire for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This book also investigates the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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