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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which articulates subjects relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. The latest advances in electronic education technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to participate in classes online. MOOC courses are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that online learning institutions are considering now that distance learning technology is improving so quickly. How can we be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can participants be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Belize to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with low student motivation and high student attrition?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Educators and many other participants want to understand these interesting new open education experiments. Scholars want to comprehend how these MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this growing desire for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education subjects. This scholarly new book also describes the 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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