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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which investigates issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New advancements in e-learning technology enable people in all parts of the world to be participants in classes online. These massive open online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of issues that e-learning technology organizations are considering in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can we be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can we make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business models are being used by organizations like Davidson College to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more available there is a increasing demand to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Public servants want to comprehend how massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this demand for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also studies the 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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