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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which articulates topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in e-learning technology have provided the means for humans all around the world to participate in courses online. These massively open online courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that elearning organizations are having to struggle with now that online learning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of these MOOC classes is respectable? How can institutions make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? How can institutions manage issues like inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants desire to better understand these exciting new open educational initiatives. Students want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this developing need for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This dramatic new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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