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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which addresses topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. The latest gains in distance learning make it possible for people all around the world to take online courses. These massive open courses are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to consider today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so quickly. How can we be assured that the training provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can students be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Iran to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a desire to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders desire to better understand these promising new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desire for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This new book also researches the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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