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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers subjects pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in distance learning technology enable people in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that distance learning institutions have to deal with today because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can stakeholders make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Wesleyan University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can educators manage low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning becomes more widespread there is a developing desire to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and many other participants need to understand the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to understand how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To handle this growing need for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This exciting new book also considers the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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