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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that analyzes topics relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent developments in digital education technology are empowering people in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOCs are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that technology-enhanced learning institutions are having to consider today because elearning technology is developing so fast. How can we be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can institutions guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Barbados to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants need to better comprehend these interesting new open education endeavours. Universities want to understand how massive open online courses can be made better. In response to this desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This stimulating new book also studies the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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