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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that talks about issues having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in distance learning have enabled students all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are usually free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to deal with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. How can educators ensure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can learners guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like American Samoa to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers manage inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants want to gain more knowledge about these interesting new open educational initiatives. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this developing desire for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education topics. This stimulating new book also discusses the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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