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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews subjects having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent advances in online education are empowering people in all parts of the world to participate in courses online. Massive open online courses are free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of issues that e-learning technology institutions are having to attend to today because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can participants be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders assure that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Indonesia to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a developing need to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open educational initiatives. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education issues. This exciting new book also researches the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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