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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers subjects having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advancements in e-learning make it possible for students all over the world to take courses online. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. Massive open online courses are commonly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that e-learning technology organizations are dealing with today because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can we be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Princeton University to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage low student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders desire to better grasp these compelling new open education experiments. Universities want to grasp how massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this need for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This amazing new book also examines the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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