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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that deals with issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in electronic education technology are providing the means for humans all over the world to take classes via the Internet. These MOOC classes are free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning technology institutions are considering more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so swiftly. How can organizations assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can students certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Yale University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders manage issues like poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing need to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Lecturers and lots of other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Corporations want to better understand how these MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this desire for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This amazing new book also considers the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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