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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which discusses topics relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in distance learning technology have enabled people all around the world to take part in courses online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massively open online courses are free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning organizations are considering more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can we certify that the quality of these MOOC courses is all right? How can organizations be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers manage issues like low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Students and lots of other participants need to better perceive these important new open education experiments. Everyone wants to perceive how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this demand for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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