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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that analyzes issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in online education have empowered people all over the world to take online classes. 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 online courses are commonly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that learning technology institutions have to consider today because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can organizations assure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can we ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford Online to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning becomes more available there is a expanding need to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Educators and many other stakeholders would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these compelling new open education endeavours. Professors want to grasp how these massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this growing desideratum for knowledge the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This dramatic new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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