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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates issues regarding open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New developments in electronic education technology are providing the means for humans in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes. 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 mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to consider now that technology-enhanced learning is developing so swiftly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can institutions certify that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can institutions certify that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Tristan da Cunha to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of low student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these important new open education initiatives. Corporations want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this expanding desideratum for information MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This authoritative new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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