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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which reviews topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent advances in online education are empowering people all around the world to take online classes. MOOCs are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of issues that online learning technology institutions are having to consider now that online learning technology is improving so fast. How can educators assure that the education provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Hong Kong to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more widespread there is a growing necessity to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders desire to be more aware of these interesting new open educational endeavours. Teachers want to perceive how these MOOCs can be improved. To handle this demand for information the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education subjects. This scholarly new book also articulates the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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