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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that talks about subjects having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new improvements in distance learning technology are providing the means for humans in all parts of the world to participate in classes online. MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that distance learning institutions are having to attend to today because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like United States to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants manage issues like poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desire to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders would like to better perceive these exciting new open education experiments. Teachers want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive demand for data the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This exciting new book also reviews the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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