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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that articulates topics relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in distance learning technology are providing the means for humans all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that online education institutions have to struggle with today because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can institutions ensure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can stakeholders ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a growing need to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this crescive desideratum for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource issues. This intriguing new book also analyzes the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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