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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in electronic educational technology have made it possible for students in nations all around the world to take classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are normally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that e-learning technology organizations are dealing with today because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle problems like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders need to better perceive these interesting new open education experiments. Teachers want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this developing need for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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