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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses topics regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern gains in e-learning technology enable students all around the world to participate in 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. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that learning technology institutions have to consider today because online education technology is improving so quickly. How can educators guarantee that the training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Miriada X to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants handle problems like low motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding desire to be aware of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these interesting new open education initiatives. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this growing demand for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This exciting new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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