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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that describes issues related to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New advances in online learning have empowered learners all around the world to take part in online classes. Massive open online courses are free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that learning technology organizations are having to attend to today because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business models are being used by organizations like Harvard University to conduct these massive open online courses? How can organizations handle inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding demand to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Teachers want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding demand for information the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource subjects. This definitive new book also considers the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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