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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that talks about topics having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new gains in distance learning technology are empowering learners in nations all around the world to take part in courses online. MOOCs are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that learning technology institutions are having to struggle with today because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like The Ohio State University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding need to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Educators and numerous other participants want to gain a better understanding of these important new open education experiments. Everybody wants to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this increasing demand for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also considers the 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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