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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses subjects regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in online learning are enabling students all over the world to take part in courses online. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. MOOCs are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that distance learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like NovoEd to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to comprehend how MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders want to understand these compelling new open educational endeavours. Scholars want to comprehend how MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this developing desideratum for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also describes the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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