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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies subjects having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Modern gains in online education technology have provided the means for learners all over the world to take courses online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOC courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning technology organizations are dealing with now that e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can educators be assured that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can institutions guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like Moldova to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing desideratum to be aware of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these compelling new open educational experiments. Students want to know how MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this expanding desire for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This authoritative new book also describes the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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