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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that researches issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent evolvements in online learning technology enable people in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massively open online courses are free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning technology organizations are considering today because online learning technology is developing so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can students ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Senegal to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants manage issues like poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education becomes more widespread there is a growing necessity to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders want to better understand these intriguing new open educational experiments. Academics want to gain an understanding of how MOOC classes can be enhanced. In response to this increasing desire for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This amazing new book also talks about the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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