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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which deals with issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in online education technology are empowering people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These massive open online courses are usually free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that learning technology institutions have to deal with today because online education technology is advancing so quickly. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can teachers be assured that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can learners guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like China, Republic of (Taiwan) to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle issues like poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Corporations want to understand how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This exciting new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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