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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which examines issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent advances in distance learning have provided the means for students in every nation on earth to participate in online classes. 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. MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that learning technology organizations are having to deal with now that online education technology is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can students make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Clipperton Island to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle issues like low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desire to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants need to better perceive these exciting new open education initiatives. Public servants want to understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive demand for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational issues. This amazing new book also reviews the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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