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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which deals with issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in online learning technology make it possible for students all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These online MOOCs are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online education institutions must deal with today because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can participants assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Puerto Rico to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators handle issues like low motivation and high learner attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to perceive how MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants desire to better understand these important new open education experiments. Researchers want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive need for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education issues. This scholarly new book also considers the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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