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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in technology-enhanced learning are enabling people in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online education organizations are dealing with now that e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can participants assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a need to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Scholars want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this desideratum for data MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This intriguing new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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