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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which deals with issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in distance learning technology are enabling students all around the world to take online classes. These online MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online education organizations are having to consider in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can we assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants handle issues like poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders need to understand these significant new open education experiments. Instructors want to grasp how massive open online courses can be improved. In response to this increasing need for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education issues. This intriguing new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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