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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which describes subjects regarding open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in technology-enhanced learning enable people all around the world to participate in online classes. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that technology-enhanced learning organizations are dealing with today because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can learners make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about these intriguing new open education experiments. Instructors want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this developing need for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education issues. This intriguing new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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