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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which discusses issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in distance learning technology have enabled people all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that e-learning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can teachers assure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders certify that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like University of Colorado Boulder to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a desire to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open education endeavours. Scholars want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this demand for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This scholarly new book also researches the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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