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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines issues having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent gains in learning technology have empowered humans in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are commonly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are numerous subjects that elearning organizations are struggling with today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can teachers guarantee that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can we assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business models are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators manage problems like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a growing need to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders would like to better perceive these intriguing new open educational experiments. Students want to better understand how MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding demand for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This sensational new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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