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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that articulates issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in online education technology are empowering students in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. 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. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that e-learning organizations must deal with more than ever because learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations guarantee that the training provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like United States to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle problems like low motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants want to better perceive these promising new open educational ventures. Students want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this crescive demand for knowledge the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This authoritative new book also studies the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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