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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which explores topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in technology-enhanced learning are making it possible for people all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers make sure that the training provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can stakeholders make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Northwestern University to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a need to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders want to better understand these exciting new open educational experiments. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive demand for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education subjects. This exciting new book also examines the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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