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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues regarding open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in electronic education technology are enabling students in every nation on earth to take online courses. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that online education organizations are dealing with now that e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can participants certify that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can institutions assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Haiti to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants get a handle on poor motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding desire to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these important new open educational experiments. Trainers want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this desire for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also describes the controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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