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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies issues related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in online education technology have empowered people in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. MOOCs are commonly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that elearning technology institutions are considering more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators guarantee that the quality of these MOOC courses is all right? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage problems like low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open education initiatives. Public servants want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing desideratum for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also considers the controversies associated with MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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