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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which discusses issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in distance learning enable people all over the world to participate in courses online. MOOCs are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning technology institutions are having to attend to now that elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators ensure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can stakeholders assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Albania to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions manage inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Students want to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this developing desire for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational subjects. This scholarly new book also examines the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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