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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that deals with subjects relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Modern improvements in distance learning technology have empowered students in every nation on earth to be participants in courses online. MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that distance learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because distance learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can educators ensure that the quality of these massive open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of Minnesota to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding desire to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants want to better perceive these important new open educational ventures. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To handle this developing demand for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This stimulating new book also articulates the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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