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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which examines issues regarding open education resources and massively open online courses. New advancements in technology-enhanced learning have enabled students all around the world to be participants in courses online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online learning organizations are having to deal with today because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality control for these MOOC classes is decent? How can learners make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by organizations like Rice University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing need to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants need to better grasp these exciting new open education endeavours. Corporations want to better understand how MOOCs can be made better. To handle this crescive demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This gripping new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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