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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which articulates issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New improvements in online education have provided the means for students in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are a variety of topics that online learning institutions have to struggle with today because learning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can participants ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Algeria to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations manage poor motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing need to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open education endeavours. Educators want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive demand for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This dramatic new book also researches the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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