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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent gains in distance learning technology have empowered students in nations all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are generally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning technology organizations are dealing with more than ever because learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can educators be assured that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can institutions be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Sweden to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a demand to perceive how MOOC courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Professors want to understand how MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding demand for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This dramatic new book also studies the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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