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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that researches issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New changes in electronic educational technology have enabled people all over the world to participate in courses online. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that distance learning organizations are considering today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so quickly. This scholarly volume offer guidelines for educators hoping to create a highly engaging MOOC-based learning environment. How can organizations ensure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by organizations like Duke University to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions get a handle on inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to comprehend how massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders want to better understand these promising new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to understand how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To meet this crescive desire for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This inspiring new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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