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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes issues regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in online learning are empowering learners all over the world to participate in online courses. These MOOC courses are almost always free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that elearning organizations are dealing with today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so quickly. How can teachers make sure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can participants make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Jersey to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle issues like inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these significant new open educational experiments. Professors want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desire for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This authoritative new book also examines the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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