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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores issues regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent advances in electronic education technology have enabled people all around the world to take classes online. MOOC classes are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online learning institutions are having to struggle with today because online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders be assured that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can we certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Russia to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing demand to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be improved. To meet this increasing desideratum for information MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education topics. This interesting new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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