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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which researches issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent changes in learning technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massively open online courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with more than ever because blended learning technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can institutions make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Palmyra Atoll to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more procurable there is a growing desire to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders need to better perceive the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to better understand how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To respond to this desire for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This authoritative new book also researches the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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