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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that examines subjects having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in online education technology are making it possible for humans all around the world to take part in courses online. Massively open online courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions must deal with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. How can organizations ensure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Namibia to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle low motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding desire to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand these exciting new open education experiments. Teachers want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this need for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This thrilling new book also discusses the controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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