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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that articulates issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern changes in digital education technology have empowered people all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that elearning technology organizations have to consider today because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can students make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Yale University to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a developing need to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of these significant new open education experiments. Lecturers want to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing desire for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education issues. This interesting new book also articulates the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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