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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which describes topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new developments in electronic education technology are empowering people all around the world to take online classes. MOOC courses are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations must deal with now that online learning technology is developing so fast. How can educators assure that the quality of these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can organizations assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Gambia to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants manage issues like poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing need to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants need to be more aware of these new open education experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive desire for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education topics. This interesting new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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