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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. The latest changes in electronic education technology are making it possible for learners all around the world to be participants in online courses. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning organizations have to struggle with more than ever because learning technology is advancing so rapidly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can educators guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Miriada X to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers get a handle on inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing need to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants want to better grasp these promising new open education experiments. Universities want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive desire for facts the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This dramatic new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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