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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New advancements in learning technology are making it possible for people in nations all aver the world to take online courses. 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. MOOC courses are normally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online education organizations are dealing with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can institutions ensure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Peer to Peer University to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle problems like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing desire to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders need to be more aware of these new open educational experiments. Trainers want to understand how MOOC classes can be enhanced. In response to this increasing desideratum for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This dramatic new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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