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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in distance learning have empowered people all over the world to participate in courses online. These MOOC courses are normally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning technology organizations are struggling with today because distance learning technology is developing so quickly. How can educators ensure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can institutions assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like OpenupEd to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders get a handle on poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning becomes more widespread there is a necessity to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Teachers want to understand how MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this growing desire for information MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This amazing new book also studies the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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