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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that investigates issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New gains in online learning technology have empowered students in every nation on earth to take classes online. These MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that distance learning institutions are having to attend to now that online education technology is improving so swiftly. How can we certify that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can students be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Nicaragua to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these intriguing new open educational experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this increasing desire for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This stimulating new book also examines the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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