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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which reviews issues related to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in online education have enabled humans all over the world to participate in classes online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that elearning institutions have to struggle with now that learning technology is improving so quickly. How can we ensure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can institutions certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As online education becomes more procurable there is a increasing need to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants would like to better grasp these intriguing new open educational experiments. Trainers want to grasp how MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desire for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This scholarly new book also explores the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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