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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that describes issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent advancements in online education technology have provided the means for students all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massively open online courses are free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations must deal with more than ever because learning technology is developing so fast. How can institutions certify that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can institutions certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Eliademy to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a demand to understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Scientists and many other stakeholders need to be more aware of the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. People want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this developing desideratum for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This authoritative new book also examines the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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