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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in online education technology have provided the means for people in nations all aver the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are typically free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online education institutions have to struggle with today because learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we assure that the quality of these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct these MOOC courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions manage issues like poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Students and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Researchers want to understand how MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this expanding need for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This sensational new book also investigates the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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