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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that researches issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest advances in learning technology are empowering people in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online education institutions have to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like New Zealand to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle issues like low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing need to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders want to better understand these interesting new open education experiments. Teachers want to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be improved. To handle this demand for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This inspiring new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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