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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which addresses issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern evolvements in e-learning are enabling people all around the world to be participants in online courses. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that distance learning organizations are having to struggle with today because online education technology is improving so quickly. How can we be assured that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is passable? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can institutions ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a need to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants want to understand these intriguing new open education experiments. Public servants want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this increasing need for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education topics. This scholarly new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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