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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which discusses subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. New advances in distance learning have made it possible for people all around the world to take classes online. These online MOOC courses are typically free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that learning technology organizations are having to attend to today because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions assure that the quality of training provided by these MOOCs is adequate? How can institutions be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Michigan State University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other participants desire to better comprehend these important new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to perceive how these MOOCs can be improved. In response to this desire for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This amazing new book also addresses the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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