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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that articulates issues regarding open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in electronic educational technology are providing the means for learners all over the world to take courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning technology organizations are considering more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so fast. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can teachers be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can organizations guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Sri Lanka to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders manage poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Professors want to understand how MOOC courses can be improved. In response to this developing demand for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This exciting new book also investigates the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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