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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses subjects relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent developments in online education technology have empowered people all around the world to be participants in online courses. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massive open courses are usually free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning technology organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers be assured that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can participants be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford Online to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more widespread there is a necessity to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders would like to better understand these intriguing new open education initiatives. Trainers want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing demand for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This sensational new book also deals with the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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