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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which addresses topics having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in online education have enabled people in every nation on earth to participate in classes online. These online MOOC courses are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning technology organizations are having to struggle with today because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the education provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can institutions certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers manage poor student motivation and high attrition?

As online education becomes more abundant there is a increasing desideratum to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders would like to better perceive these important new open education endeavours. Academics want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this expanding need for information MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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