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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which deals with issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in e-learning enable people all around the world to be participants in 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. This MOOCs book also analyzes the motivational variables involved in self-directed learning experiences. These MOOC classes are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning institutions are having to struggle with now that elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can we ensure that the education provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford Online to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle issues like low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing demand to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these new open educational ventures. Universities want to grasp how MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this growing demand for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational issues. This interesting new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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