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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in technology-enhanced learning are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. How can institutions ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding necessity to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Public servants want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for knowledge the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This authoritative new book also studies the controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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