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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers topics relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in electronic educational technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. These MOOCs are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning technology organizations must deal with today because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the quality control for these MOOC courses is respectable? How can students assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Johnston Atoll to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing desire to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Universities want to better understand how these MOOCs can be improved. To handle this expanding need for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This interesting new book also discusses the controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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