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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that talks about topics having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest developments in distance learning have empowered people in all parts of the world to participate in courses online. These MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning institutions are having to attend to today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of these MOOCs is adequate? How can participants certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Bangladesh to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators get a handle on inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding need to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Academics want to better understand how MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this desire for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This dramatic new book also talks about the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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