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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which addresses subjects relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern changes in distance learning technology are empowering people in every nation on earth to take part in online courses. Massive open online courses are usually free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that learning technology organizations have to deal with today because online education technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can learners make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Cyprus to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants manage low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these promising new open educational endeavours. Lecturers want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this developing desideratum for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This new book also discusses the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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