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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new changes in distance learning are providing the means for people all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning institutions are dealing with today because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can students assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Georgia Institute of Technology to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we get a handle on poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding need to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand these significant new open education experiments. Students want to grasp how MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this growing desideratum for data the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This sensational new book also considers the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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