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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which researches issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New developments in blended learning are enabling humans in all parts of the world to be participants in 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. Massively open online courses are almost always free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that elearning technology organizations must deal with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. How can participants be assured that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can we make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Switzerland to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants manage issues like poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing need to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants desire to better understand these fascinating new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This amazing new book also examines the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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