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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which examines issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent changes in online education technology are empowering learners all over the world to participate in courses online. MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that distance learning institutions must deal with more than ever because distance learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions make sure that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Rwaq to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants handle problems like inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more available there is a expanding need to be aware of how MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Academics and lots of other participants would like to better comprehend these important new open educational experiments. Professors want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desire for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource subjects. This amazing new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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