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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which studies issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent gains in electronic education technology are providing the means for humans all around the world to take online classes. Massively open online courses are normally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are many topics that distance learning organizations are having to deal with now that learning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Guam to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle issues like low motivation and high learner attrition?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to be aware of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Educators want to understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. In response to this expanding demand for information MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education topics. This authoritative new book also addresses the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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