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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in online education technology enable learners all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are generally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few issues that e-learning institutions have to struggle with today because elearning technology is improving so quickly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can teachers be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is passable? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Samoa to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders manage issues like poor motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these new open educational initiatives. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing demand for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This gripping new book also describes the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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