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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies topics relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advancements in distance learning technology are empowering students in nations all around the world to take part in courses online. These massive open online courses are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning institutions have to deal with today because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can educators guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by organizations like University of Kentucky to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage issues like inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these exciting new open education experiments. Corporations want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This sensational new book also discusses the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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