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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers issues related to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern gains in online learning enable learners in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are generally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are many issues that elearning organizations are struggling with now that e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders guarantee that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing necessity to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and many other participants need to understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Public servants want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this expanding desideratum for data the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This intriguing new book also talks about the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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