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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest changes in e-learning technology have empowered learners in nations all around the world to be participants in online courses. MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations must deal with today because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can educators guarantee that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can we ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What strategies are being used by organizations like Miriada X to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders get a handle on low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders would like to understand these open education experiments. Everyone wants to better understand how MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this developing need for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This stimulating new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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