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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Brand new gains in e-learning technology have provided the means for people all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to deal with today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. How can organizations assure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can students ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a growing demand to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these significant new open education experiments. Universities want to comprehend how these MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this developing demand for information the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This new book also examines the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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