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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern evolvements in distance learning are enabling students in all parts of the world to take courses online. These massive open courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions are having to struggle with today because elearning technology is developing so fast. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is adequate? How can we certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Reunion to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants manage poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more procurable there is a expanding desideratum to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders need to better grasp these intriguing new open educational experiments. Researchers want to know how MOOC courses can be improved. In response to this crescive desideratum for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This sensational new book also studies the major controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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