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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that talks about subjects relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new improvements in technology-enhanced learning enable learners all around the world to participate in classes online. These massive open online courses are typically free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are numerous topics that online education organizations are having to struggle with now that online learning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can participants guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford Online to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Intellectuals and lots of other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these exciting new open education endeavours. Universities want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding need for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This scholarly new book also talks about the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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