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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which examines subjects relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern improvements in online education technology are enabling humans all over the world to participate in courses online. These online MOOC courses are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a variety of issues that online learning technology organizations are struggling with now that e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can stakeholders assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Reunion to conduct these massive open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations handle issues like poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Everybody wants to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this desire for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also describes the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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