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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which describes issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Modern advances in elearning are providing the means for humans all over the world to take courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that online learning organizations are struggling with today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so fast. How can we ensure that the training provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can we certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these open education initiatives. Public servants want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing desire for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also deals with the controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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