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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in online learning are enabling people all over the world to take part in online courses. These online MOOCs are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations must deal with more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations certify that the training provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can learners ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Great Basin College to conduct these massive open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing need to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Everyone wants to gain an understanding of how MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this growing demand for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational topics. This amazing new book also considers the key 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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