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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in distance learning technology enable students all over the world to be participants in online courses. MOOC courses are normally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are a variety of issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to deal with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can learners guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations get a handle on poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to be aware of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants need to be more aware of these interesting new open educational experiments. Students want to perceive how MOOCs can be made better. To handle this growing desideratum for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This authoritative new book also investigates the most important 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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