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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses issues having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses. New advances in elearning have enabled students all over the world to take courses via the Internet. 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. MOOCs are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that online learning organizations are considering today because learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations assure that the education provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can institutions assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Northwestern University to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? Interaction, feedback and online support are the most important things that help students succeed in MOOC courses. How can teachers deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more widespread there is a desire to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and many other participants want to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open education endeavours. Scholars want to understand how massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this desire for data the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education topics. This intriguing new book also investigates the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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