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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which researches issues having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New advances in digital education technology have provided the means for people in nations all aver the world to be participants in courses online. These online MOOCs are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that distance learning institutions are having to attend to today because distance learning technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers be assured that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business models are being used by organizations like United Kingdom to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more widespread there is a developing demand to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about these promising new open education experiments. Teachers want to know how massive open online courses can be made better. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To respond to this growing desire for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also reviews the key 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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