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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Brand new evolvements in online education are enabling people in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that learning technology organizations are considering more than ever because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can participants be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is adequate? How can organizations guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Mauritius to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more widespread there is a developing need to understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Lecturers and many other stakeholders would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this crescive desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This exciting new book also researches the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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