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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in online learning technology enable people all around the world to be participants in online classes. Massive open online courses are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that elearning technology organizations are having to attend to today because elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can organizations ensure that the education provided by these MOOCs is good? This open education book offers guidelines for others hoping to create a highly engaging MOOC-based learning experience. How can we ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Papua New Guinea to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding desire to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational undertakings. Professors want to understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this developing desire for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education topics. This amazing new book also addresses the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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