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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies topics having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in online education technology have enabled people in nations all aver the world to take part in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are typically free 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 many topics that online learning institutions have to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is developing so fast. How can organizations ensure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can students ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a need to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this increasing desideratum for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This dramatic new book also researches the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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