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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New advances in online learning enable people in all parts of the world to participate in courses online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. MOOCs are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that e-learning technology institutions are having to consider more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can organizations be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Ohio State University to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle poor student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a necessity to gain a better understanding of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Scientists want to perceive how massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing desideratum for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational subjects. This scholarly new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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