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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies issues related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in e-learning are enabling people in all parts of the world to take part in classes online. These massive open online courses are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online education institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because learning technology is developing so fast. How can teachers be assured that the quality of these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can participants assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Russia to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle problems like low motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a necessity to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Universities and numerous other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational initiatives. Teachers want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing desire for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This dramatic new book also describes the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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