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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent gains in digital education technology are empowering people in nations all around the world to take part in online courses. These MOOCs are generally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning technology organizations are having to deal with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can teachers be assured that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can stakeholders assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Comoros to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding desire to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders desire to be more aware of these exciting new open educational experiments. Scientists want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education topics. This intriguing new book also examines the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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