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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in distance learning have enabled people in nations all aver the world to take courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning technology organizations are having to struggle with today because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders certify that the quality of these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can organizations make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Tunisia to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing demand to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these significant new open education experiments. Researchers want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing demand for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This dramatic new book also considers the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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