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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that researches subjects related to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New developments in electronic education technology are enabling students in all parts of the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are typically free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that learning technology institutions are having to attend to today because learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders be assured that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can organizations assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can educators manage issues like low motivation and high learner attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a demand to understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other participants desire to understand these important new open educational experiments. Teachers want to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be made better. To handle this expanding desideratum for data the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This interesting new book also discusses the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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