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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which describes issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in online education technology are empowering people all around the world to be participants in courses online. These MOOC courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning technology organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because online education technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can learners make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations handle low learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a desire to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Lecturers and many other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open education ventures. People want to comprehend how these MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this developing need for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also addresses the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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