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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that researches issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new gains in online learning technology have provided the means for people in all parts of the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are typically free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online education institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so fast. How can institutions be assured that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can organizations be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Facebook to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we get a handle on low motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding need to comprehend how MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and many other participants desire to be more aware of these promising new open education experiments. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this developing desire for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This thrilling new book also articulates the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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