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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which explores subjects having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New advances in online education technology make it possible for students in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online education organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers guarantee that the training provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Nauru to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing need to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of these promising new open education experiments. Students want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This exciting new book also deals with the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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