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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New improvements in electronic education technology are providing the means for people in all parts of the world to participate in courses online. MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers ensure that the quality of these massively open online courses is decent? How can we assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Russia to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators handle inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these open educational ventures. Scholars want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This authoritative new book also addresses the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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