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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which deals with topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern changes in online education are enabling students in all parts of the world to be participants in online courses. MOOC classes are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that distance learning institutions have to deal with now that e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can we guarantee that the quality of these massive open online courses is decent? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Hong Kong 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 motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a developing need to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Professors want to perceive how MOOC classes can be improved. To meet this expanding demand for knowledge the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education issues. This stimulating new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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