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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that describes issues regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New developments in electronic educational technology enable learners in nations all around the world to take online courses. These massive online courses are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to attend to now that elearning technology is improving so rapidly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can educators make sure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can stakeholders be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Khan Academy to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle issues like poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education becomes more procurable there is a developing necessity to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders would like to better understand these intriguing new open education experiments. Scholars want to perceive how MOOCs can be improved. In response to this crescive need for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education topics. This authoritative new book also articulates the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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