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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which investigates issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in electronic educational technology are providing the means for learners in nations all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are usually free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that e-learning technology organizations are dealing with more than ever because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions be assured that the quality of these MOOC classes is passable? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to comprehend how massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Lecturers want to comprehend how these massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding demand for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This intriguing new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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