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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses subjects relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in online education technology are providing the means for people all around the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can educators be assured that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Heard Island and McDonald Islands to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions get a handle on poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a growing desideratum to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders need to better grasp these important new open education experiments. Teachers want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this desideratum for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This stimulating new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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