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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which analyzes issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. New advancements in distance learning are empowering people in nations all around the world to take classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massively open online courses are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are many issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to deal with today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so swiftly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can we certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What business models are being used by organizations like Reunion to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants manage problems like poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other participants desire to better comprehend these exciting new open educational initiatives. Public servants want to understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this developing need for information the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This authoritative new book also researches the 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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