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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in distance learning technology are empowering people in all parts of 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. Massive open online courses are generally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that technology-enhanced learning institutions are having to struggle with now that online education technology is advancing so swiftly. How can we guarantee that the education provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants manage low student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these compelling new open education experiments. Professors want to understand how MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this desideratum for details MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also researches the controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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