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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers issues related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in online education have made it possible for humans all over the world to take courses online. MOOC courses are typically free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that distance learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can learners make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Qatar to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing necessity to comprehend how massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this expanding need for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource topics. This scholarly new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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