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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that talks about issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Brand new improvements in technology-enhanced learning enable people in nations all aver the world to take classes via the Internet. 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. MOOC classes are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning institutions are struggling with more than ever because learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can educators certify that the education provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can organizations be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders manage issues like inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding necessity to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Researchers and many other participants would like to better grasp these intriguing new open education experiments. Universities want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive desire for facts the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource subjects. This scholarly new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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