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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which describes topics having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent developments in learning technology are enabling students in every nation on earth to be participants in classes online. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that distance learning organizations are having to attend to now that technology-enhanced learning is advancing so swiftly. How can teachers be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can stakeholders ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by organizations like Guinea to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing demand to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other participants need to better grasp these promising new open educational experiments. Universities want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this desire for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This amazing new book also talks about the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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