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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which discusses issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in elearning technology are enabling learners in every nation on earth to take online courses. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that distance learning organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because distance learning technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers assure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford University to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. People want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this increasing desire for facts the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource topics. This stimulating new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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