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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advances in online education technology are making it possible for humans all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are commonly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that online learning technology organizations are dealing with today because online education technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a developing demand to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Everyone wants to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also addresses the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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