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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that examines topics regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in e-learning technology are empowering people all around the world to take classes online. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that distance learning institutions have to deal with more than ever because online education technology is developing so rapidly. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can organizations ensure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Palau to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of low motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to perceive how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders need to understand the outcomes of these open education experiments. Teachers want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this expanding desire for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational issues. This interesting new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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