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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which addresses topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in distance learning have provided the means for people all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are normally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online education organizations are having to deal with now that elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can learners ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Academic Earth to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle problems like poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more commonplace there is a demand to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders would like to understand these promising new open educational experiments. Students want to understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive demand for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational subjects. This new book also deals with the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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