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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in technology-enhanced learning are enabling learners in all parts of the world to participate in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are usually free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so quickly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can participants ensure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Khan Academy to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing desideratum to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other stakeholders would like to better understand these interesting new open education experiments. Educators want to comprehend how MOOCs can be improved. In response to this crescive desideratum for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This dramatic new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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