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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses subjects relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New evolvements in electronic education technology are making it possible for students in all parts of the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are commonly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few subjects that elearning institutions are having to struggle with today because distance learning technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high attrition?

As elearning becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to perceive how MOOC courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other participants need to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be made better. To meet this need for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource issues. This new book also considers the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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