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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new advancements in elearning technology are making it possible for people in all parts of the world to take courses via the Internet. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. MOOC courses are typically free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning technology institutions have to consider today because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of these massive open online courses is good? How can stakeholders be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Equatorial Guinea to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators manage issues like low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding demand to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants want to better comprehend these important new open education experiments. Everyone wants to comprehend how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this growing desire for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also discusses the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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