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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that investigates topics relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern evolvements in learning technology have enabled people all over the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning organizations must deal with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. How can stakeholders make sure that the quality of these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Cuba to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to be aware of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants would like to better grasp these promising new open educational endeavours. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this expanding demand for knowledge the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education issues. This interesting new book also describes the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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