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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies subjects related to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern developments in online learning technology are empowering humans all over the world to take online courses. These MOOC courses are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that elearning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. How can teachers be assured that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can participants be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Google+ to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with low motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Scientists and many other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of these significant new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing desire for information the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This stimulating new book also considers the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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