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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses subjects pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest evolvements in elearning technology are enabling students all over the world to take part in online classes. These massive online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a variety of issues that online education organizations have to consider now that technology-enhanced learning is advancing so fast. How can educators guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Belize to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage issues like inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding desire to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Professors and numerous other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Teachers want to perceive how massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing desire for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This stimulating new book also studies the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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