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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates issues regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern advancements in online education technology have made it possible for humans all over the world to take classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are several topics that online learning institutions are dealing with more than ever because online learning technology is developing so fast. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can institutions ensure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can institutions assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Cyprus to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding desire to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders want to better understand these compelling new open education endeavours. Everybody wants to know how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive desire for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This scholarly new book also deals with the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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