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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which researches issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New improvements in elearning are making it possible for learners in every nation on earth to take online classes. These online MOOC courses are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online education organizations are having to consider more than ever because distance learning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders be assured that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants manage issues like low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning becomes more prolific there is a demand to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Public servants want to perceive how MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desire for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also describes the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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