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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that addresses issues regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in online education are empowering people in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are typically free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online education institutions have to struggle with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is passable? How can students be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by organizations like Georgia to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding desideratum to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of these interesting new open educational experiments. Professors want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive demand for information MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education issues. This interesting new book also examines the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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