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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that addresses issues regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest evolvements in electronic education technology are enabling people in nations all aver the world to take classes online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because learning technology is improving so rapidly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can participants certify that the quality of these massively open online courses is decent? How can we make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Nagorno-Karabakh to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders manage issues like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a developing desire to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Public servants want to perceive how MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this growing desideratum for details the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This new book also examines the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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