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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that articulates issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent evolvements in online learning technology have enabled people in all parts of the world to take online classes. MOOC courses are free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that distance learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers ensure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Norfolk Island to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage issues like poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more available there is a increasing desire to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing demand for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource subjects. This inspiring new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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