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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in online learning technology have enabled people in nations all aver the world to be participants in online courses. These massive online courses are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning technology institutions are having to struggle with today because online education technology is improving so swiftly. How can we guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can students make sure that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Australia to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators manage problems like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more prolific there is a developing need to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Educators and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about these important new open educational experiments. Academics want to better understand how these MOOCs can be enhanced. In response to this growing demand for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This exciting new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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