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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that addresses issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest advances in elearning are making it possible for people in all parts of the world to participate in online classes. MOOC courses are normally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that online learning technology organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so fast. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can participants ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can learners assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Nicaragua to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing necessity to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders need to be more aware of these promising new open educational experiments. Professors want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desire for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education topics. This definitive new book also researches 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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