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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in e-learning have made it possible for humans in all parts of the world to be participants in online courses. These online MOOC courses are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to attend to more than ever because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can organizations certify that the education provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can we ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage issues like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing need to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Academics want to grasp how MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this expanding desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This exciting new book also considers the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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