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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that talks about topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New developments in elearning are enabling people all around the world to take 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. These online MOOC courses are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that learning technology institutions are dealing with now that distance learning technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers guarantee that the training provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford University to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage issues like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding demand to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders desire to be more aware of these compelling new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing desire for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education issues. This definitive new book also examines the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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