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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which reviews topics having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new advancements in distance learning enable students in nations all around the world to take online courses. 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 massive open courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that e-learning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so quickly. How can participants certify that the quality of these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can we ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business models are being used by organizations like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can educators manage issues like poor motivation and high attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders would like to better perceive these significant new open education experiments. Corporations want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this developing desideratum for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational issues. This sensational new book also investigates the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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