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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that investigates topics having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new developments in distance learning technology have enabled people all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are generally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that e-learning technology institutions are having to deal with now that learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can participants guarantee that the training provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can organizations certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a growing desideratum to comprehend how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders want to understand these promising new open education endeavours. Students want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive need for data MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also addresses the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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