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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers issues related to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest evolvements in elearning technology are providing the means for humans all over the world to be participants in online courses. These massive online courses are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that distance learning institutions are dealing with now that technology-enhanced learning is advancing so fast. How can participants guarantee that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can organizations be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of low motivation and high attrition?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to be aware of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these exciting new open educational endeavours. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this increasing desire for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource issues. This new book also describes the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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