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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers topics related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in online education have provided the means for humans in every nation on earth to take online classes. These massive open courses are generally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that elearning organizations are having to attend to today because distance learning technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders certify that the education provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can participants be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Liechtenstein to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with poor motivation and high student attrition?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational endeavours. Educators want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also considers the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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