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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores subjects regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent developments in elearning are enabling people all over the world to take courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that distance learning institutions are having to attend to more than ever because learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can educators assure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can organizations guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business models are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions get a handle on poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more widespread there is a developing demand to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Lecturers and many other participants want to better grasp the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this increasing desire for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This dramatic new book also examines the controversies associated with these massive open courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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