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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in online education are enabling students all over the world to take online courses. MOOC classes are commonly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online learning organizations have to deal with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. How can participants certify that the training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Canvas Network to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers manage issues like low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Public servants want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive need for facts the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This inspiring new book also deals with the controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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