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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in distance learning technology are providing the means for people in nations all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are usually free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that learning technology institutions are dealing with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we make sure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can students certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What business models are being used by institutions like Wake Island to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators handle problems like low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be made better. To handle this increasing desideratum for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This authoritative new book also studies the controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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