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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that describes issues having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses. Modern gains in elearning enable learners in every nation on earth to participate in 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 online MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of topics that online education institutions are considering today because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can we assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Khan Academy to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? Interaction, feedback and online support are the most important things that help students succeed in MOOC courses. How can educators manage issues like low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more widespread there is a developing necessity to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other participants would like to better perceive these fascinating new open education experiments. Public servants want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive demand for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This stimulating new book also explores the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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