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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which analyzes topics relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. Brand new gains in elearning technology are providing the means for people in nations all around the world to take courses online. 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. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that learning technology organizations must deal with today because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we certify that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can stakeholders certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants manage problems like inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more abundant there is a desire to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand these intriguing new open educational undertakings. People want to know how MOOC courses can be improved. In response to this crescive need for knowledge the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education issues. This authoritative new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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