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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advances in electronic education technology have empowered learners in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are normally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning organizations must deal with today because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What strategies are being used by organizations like Princeton University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desire to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these significant new open education initiatives. Professors want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing demand for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This scholarly new book also considers the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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