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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern improvements in learning technology have enabled humans in all parts of the world to take classes online. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These online MOOCs are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that e-learning technology institutions are having to consider today because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can stakeholders certify that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can we ensure that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Kiribati to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing need to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Professors want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this increasing desire for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This sensational new book also articulates the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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