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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores subjects relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New changes in distance learning technology enable humans all over the world to be participants in classes online. MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners. These massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that elearning institutions are considering today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so swiftly. How can participants guarantee that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is adequate? How can learners guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like openHPI to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations get a handle on poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding necessity to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants would like to gain a better understanding of these promising new open education experiments. Academics want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive demand for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also examines the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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