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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. The latest advances in distance learning are enabling learners all around the world to participate in courses online. MOOCs are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a variety of issues that online learning technology organizations have to consider now that online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions assure that the quality of these MOOCs is acceptable? How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Somaliland to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle issues like poor motivation and high attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Universities want to grasp how these massive open online courses can be made better. In response to this expanding demand for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This gripping new book also explores the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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