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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that analyzes topics having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses. New gains in e-learning technology are enabling students in nations all around the world to take online classes. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These MOOC classes are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online education organizations are having to consider now that online education technology is developing so rapidly. How can participants guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Brunei to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing desideratum to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and many other participants desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these important new open education undertakings. Everybody wants to grasp how MOOCs can be improved. In response to this increasing desire for details the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also researches the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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