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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which discusses topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent gains in technology-enhanced learning have made it possible for people in nations all around the world to participate in online courses. These massive open courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that learning technology organizations are having to deal with now that elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we certify that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business models are being used by organizations like Vanuatu to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders manage problems like poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more available there is a increasing necessity to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Academics and many other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Students want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this desire for information MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also describes the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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