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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which deals with issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. New gains in online learning have enabled people all over the world to take part in 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 massively open online courses are normally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning organizations are having to attend to now that online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants assure that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can stakeholders assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like French Guiana to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can educators handle issues like inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desideratum to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of these interesting new open education experiments. Scientists want to perceive how MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this desideratum for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This new book also addresses the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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