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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which explores subjects having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses. Brand new changes in online learning technology make it possible for people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that distance learning organizations are having to struggle with now that distance learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Samoa to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders manage problems like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing necessity to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants want to better understand these promising new open educational initiatives. Scientists want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing need for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This exciting new book also talks about the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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