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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses topics relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. The latest advancements in learning technology enable people in nations all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that learning technology organizations are having to attend to today because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can learners make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Brunei to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a expanding necessity to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Instructors and many other participants would like to better understand these intriguing new open education ventures. Public servants want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding desire for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also talks about the most important 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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