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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that investigates issues regarding open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent changes in online education technology are enabling students all around the world to take part in courses 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. MOOCs are free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that elearning organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations ensure that the quality of these MOOCs is tolerable? How can institutions guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Twitter to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations handle problems like low motivation and high attrition?

As e-learning becomes more available there is a increasing necessity to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these promising new open education undertakings. Everyone wants to know how MOOC courses can be improved. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To handle this developing desire for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This intriguing new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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