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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which researches issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in electronic education technology have enabled people all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that distance learning institutions have to consider today because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can participants make sure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can learners ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford Online to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle problems like poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants desire to gain a better understanding of these open education experiments. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desire for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource topics. This dramatic new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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