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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews issues regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New advancements in online education technology have enabled people all over the world to take part in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online education institutions must deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so fast. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can participants guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Australia to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing desire to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants would like to understand the outcomes of these important new open education initiatives. Public servants want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this growing desideratum for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This exciting new book also studies the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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