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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in elearning technology have provided the means for people in nations all around the world to be participants in online courses. These MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that distance learning institutions are dealing with now that technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. How can teachers assure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can organizations ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these interesting new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this desire for information the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also researches the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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