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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which addresses issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New advances in distance learning technology enable humans all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that learning technology institutions must deal with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can we assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can participants certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business models are being used by institutions like Mauritania to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions handle inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more procurable there is a developing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Students want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this growing need for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This intriguing new book also discusses the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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