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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that investigates topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New developments in online learning have provided the means for students in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. Massively open online courses are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are many issues that learning technology institutions are having to deal with now that learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders ensure that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can participants assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants desire to better perceive these new open education experiments. Everyone wants to know how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this developing desire for details the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This interesting new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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