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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which examines issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in online learning technology enable students all around the world to be participants in classes online. Massive open online courses are commonly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online education institutions have to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can organizations guarantee that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can participants certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Kiribati to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Trainers want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this growing demand for information MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational topics. This amazing new book also examines the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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