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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in online education are providing the means for humans all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online education organizations are having to attend to more than ever because online learning technology is developing so quickly. How can we assure that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can participants assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Syria to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with low motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a need to comprehend how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of these promising new open educational experiments. Academics want to better understand how MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desire for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also researches the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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