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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that addresses issues regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in electronic education technology have empowered learners all around the world to take courses online. These online MOOC courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions are having to deal with now that distance learning technology is developing so quickly. How can institutions assure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can students certify that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Slovenia to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Researchers want to understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing desire for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This dramatic new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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