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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that talks about topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest improvements in technology-enhanced learning are enabling people all over the world to take online courses. These massive open courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that e-learning technology organizations are struggling with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations assure that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Marshall Islands to conduct these MOOCs? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding desire to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these new open education undertakings. Lecturers want to better understand how MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this crescive need for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This definitive new book also explores the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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