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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that talks about topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in electronic educational technology are providing the means for students in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are commonly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that technology-enhanced learning institutions are having to struggle with today because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions make sure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can learners guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a growing demand to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants want to be more aware of these fascinating new open education experiments. Researchers want to know how these MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this crescive demand for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This dramatic new book also articulates the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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