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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that describes topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Modern evolvements in digital education technology are enabling people all around the world to participate in online classes. These MOOC courses are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that distance learning institutions have to consider today because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can we assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Case Western Reserve University to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants handle issues like poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding desire to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational endeavours. Researchers want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this crescive desire for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource topics. This stimulating new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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