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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers issues having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New advances in electronic education technology have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to take part in online classes. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. 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. These MOOC courses are typically free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that elearning technology institutions are struggling with today because learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations make sure that the quality of these massively open online courses is passable? How can we ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more prolific there is a demand to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these intriguing new open education endeavours. Researchers want to better understand how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desire for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This exciting new book also describes the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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