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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews issues regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New evolvements in online education have provided the means for students all over the world to take courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that online learning institutions have to struggle with today because distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators make sure that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Harvard University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants handle poor motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Professors and many other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these compelling new open educational undertakings. Corporations want to better understand how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To respond to this developing desire for knowledge the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education topics. This inspiring new book also examines the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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