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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which articulates issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advancements in online education enable people all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that learning technology organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions make sure that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like MenaVersity to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations get a handle on inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a increasing demand to be aware of how MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these open educational initiatives. Lecturers want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also considers the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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