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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses subjects relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. The latest gains in distance learning technology are empowering people in every nation on earth to take part 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 almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning institutions are considering today because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of these MOOC courses is passable? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like South Ossetia to conduct these MOOC courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As online education technology becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these significant new open education experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be enhanced. In response to this demand for information the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This intriguing new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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