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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that examines issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New changes in electronic education technology are providing the means for humans in all parts of the world to take classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are usually free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning technology organizations are dealing with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers be assured that the education provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can institutions certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Svalbard to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing need to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders desire to better perceive these important new open education undertakings. Lecturers want to grasp how these massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this developing need for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This definitive new book also addresses the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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