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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses subjects relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest improvements in online education have enabled people in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are generally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of subjects that elearning institutions are having to deal with now that online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions be assured that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can organizations assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What business models are being used by organizations like Tunisia to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desire to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Lecturers and many other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of these open education ventures. Corporations want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing desire for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational subjects. This dramatic new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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