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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which deals with topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in elearning are empowering people in every nation on earth to take part in online courses. 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. These massively open online courses are generally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that distance learning institutions have to struggle with today because online learning technology is improving so fast. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can organizations make sure that the quality control for these MOOCs is acceptable? How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing necessity to perceive how MOOC classes are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these important new open education initiatives. People want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be enhanced. To meet this developing desideratum for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This inspiring new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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