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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that describes topics having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent changes in distance learning are enabling people in all parts of the world to participate in online courses. These MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning organizations have to deal with today because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can we assure that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Grenada to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Teachers and many other participants desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to comprehend how these MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this expanding demand for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also studies the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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