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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in distance learning are providing the means for students all around the world to be participants in courses online. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that distance learning organizations have to struggle with today because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can we assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can participants guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Germany to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle problems like inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a desire to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational endeavours. Researchers want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this crescive desire for data MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This book also examines the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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