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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new improvements in distance learning enable people in all parts of the world to participate in courses online. MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that learning technology organizations are having to attend to today because learning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations make sure that the quality of these massively open online courses is adequate? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders get a handle on inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more procurable there is a need to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders need to better perceive these significant new open education experiments. Universities want to understand how these massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this demand for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This exciting new book also considers the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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