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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores topics relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advancements in distance learning technology have enabled people in nations all around the world to take online courses. Massive open online courses are customarily free 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 quite a few topics that online learning organizations must deal with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can participants be assured that the quality control for these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Japan to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators manage issues like inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desire to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders desire to better perceive these fascinating new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive need for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also articulates the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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