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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which explores topics regarding open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New changes in online education enable students all over the world to be participants in online courses. These massive online courses are typically free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that learning technology organizations have to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can educators be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we assure that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these new open education experiments. Teachers want to understand how MOOC courses can be made better. In response to this need for information the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This intriguing new book also reviews the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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