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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which addresses subjects regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent developments in online learning are providing the means for humans in all parts of the world to participate in courses online. These massive online courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning technology organizations are dealing with today because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Latvia to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers handle issues like low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding demand to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other participants would like to be more aware of these important new open education experiments. Researchers want to better understand how MOOCs can be enhanced. To respond to this growing desideratum for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This dramatic new book also addresses the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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