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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which investigates issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent advances in e-learning are enabling humans in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are almost always free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are many topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to consider today because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Martinique to conduct these MOOC classes? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a demand to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders would like to better grasp the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this growing need for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This new book also examines the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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