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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers issues having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New advances in electronic education technology enable people in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. These massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few topics that technology-enhanced learning institutions are having to consider more than ever because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations assure that the education provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can learners be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these exciting new open educational endeavours. Universities want to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be enhanced. To meet this demand for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also discusses 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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