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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that researches topics regarding open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in elearning technology are enabling humans in nations all aver the world to take classes via the Internet. 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. These MOOC courses are normally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that e-learning institutions are having to attend to today because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of low motivation and high student attrition?

As online education becomes more abundant there is a growing demand to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these new open educational undertakings. Public servants want to know how these MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing demand for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This dramatic new book also reviews the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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