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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in distance learning are enabling people in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. MOOCs are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are numerous issues that online learning institutions are dealing with now that online education technology is advancing so rapidly. How can we certify that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is all right? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Georgia Institute of Technology to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more available there is a increasing need to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational undertakings. Corporations want to better understand how MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this developing need for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also examines the major controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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