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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which examines issues related to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advancements in digital education technology enable people in every nation on earth to take part in classes via the Internet. These MOOC classes are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online education organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can organizations certify that the education provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct these massive open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders get a handle on low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing demand to perceive how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders would like to better grasp these compelling new open education experiments. Professors want to better understand how these MOOCs can be made better. In response to this expanding desideratum for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This dramatic new book also reviews the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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