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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores issues related to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. The latest advances in distance learning are enabling people all over the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to deal with now that learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions ensure that the education provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can we certify that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders manage problems like inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Academics and many other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to perceive how these massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desideratum for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This book also examines the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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