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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent changes in learning technology enable students all around the world to take classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are customarily free 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 lot of subjects that e-learning organizations are dealing with now that e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions assure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Stanford University to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing desire to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Professors and numerous other stakeholders desire to better grasp these important new open education experiments. Corporations want to better understand how MOOCs can be improved. In response to this desire for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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