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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which studies topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in online education enable people in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are typically free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that learning technology organizations must deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can teachers guarantee that the education provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can students ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of low student motivation and high attrition?

As learning technology becomes more available there is a desire to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about these fascinating new open education experiments. Lecturers want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding desire for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also considers the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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