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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent evolvements in distance learning technology have made it possible for humans all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are dealing with today because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle problems like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing need to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Teachers want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding desire for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This stimulating new book also investigates the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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