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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that investigates issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in digital education technology are making it possible for learners all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning organizations are struggling with today because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can teachers guarantee that the quality control for these MOOCs is acceptable? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like The University of Chicago to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers handle issues like poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As online education technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desideratum to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these exciting new open educational initiatives. Professors want to understand how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education issues. This scholarly new book also discusses the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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