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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which addresses topics having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New developments in e-learning enable people all over the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are numerous topics that distance learning organizations must deal with now that elearning technology is developing so fast. How can educators make sure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations be assured that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business models are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations get a handle on low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing demand to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Lecturers want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this growing demand for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This authoritative new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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