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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new improvements in technology-enhanced learning have provided the means for people all around the world to be participants in courses online. Massively open online courses are typically free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that online education organizations are struggling with today because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions assure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can institutions assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What business models are being used by institutions like U.S. Virgin Islands to conduct these massive open online courses? How can organizations handle problems like low motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a need to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Scholars and many other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Educators want to understand how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this expanding need for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also explores the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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