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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which deals with topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advancements in e-learning technology have provided the means for people all over the world to take online courses. These massive open courses are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education institutions are having to deal with today because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions assure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like United Kingdom to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with low motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a developing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about these significant new open educational endeavours. Instructors want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this desideratum for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational topics. This scholarly new book also examines the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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