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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent evolvements in online learning are making it possible for learners all over the world to take online classes. Massively open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning institutions are having to attend to now that online learning technology is improving so fast. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can participants certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants handle issues like inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a growing necessity to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Public servants want to perceive how MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this crescive demand for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This stimulating new book also talks about the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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