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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which discusses topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent gains in technology-enhanced learning have made it possible for people all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online education organizations are struggling with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can organizations ensure that the quality of these massively open online courses is adequate? How can organizations guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? How can institutions deal with low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants want to understand the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Corporations want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this need for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational topics. This gripping new book also articulates the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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