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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses issues related to open education resources and massive open online courses. Modern developments in online learning technology are empowering humans in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. These massively open online courses are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that e-learning institutions are having to deal with today because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can teachers ensure that the quality control for these massive open online courses is good? How can participants assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Eliademy to conduct these MOOCs? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle problems like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to gain a better understanding of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other participants desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Universities want to gain an understanding of how MOOC courses can be improved. To respond to this need for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This new book also considers the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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