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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with issues regarding open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. The latest evolvements in electronic education technology have enabled students in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. MOOC courses are usually free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that distance learning organizations have to consider today because online learning technology is improving so quickly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can stakeholders ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can institutions ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Relay Graduate School of Education to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other participants want to understand these important new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing desideratum for information the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This new book also considers 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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