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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New developments in distance learning technology enable people all over the world to take online courses. These online MOOCs are usually free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online education organizations have to consider today because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we certify that the training provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can participants ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Wake Island to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Educators and many other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this demand for details the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This sensational new book also reviews the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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