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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New evolvements in distance learning have empowered humans all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are usually free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few subjects that technology-enhanced learning organizations are dealing with now that online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can we be assured that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Columbia University to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we get a handle on poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning becomes more prolific there is a increasing desideratum to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Universities want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing desideratum for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education issues. This thrilling new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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