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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which addresses topics having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in electronic education technology have provided the means for people in all parts of the world to take online courses. These MOOC courses are normally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that distance learning institutions are considering today because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can we ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing desire to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. People want to grasp how massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this developing desire for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This amazing new book also deals with the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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