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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines topics related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in online learning technology are providing the means for learners all over the world to take online courses. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that learning technology organizations are struggling with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. How can organizations ensure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can learners assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Greece to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a need to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to understand how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To handle this developing need for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also discusses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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