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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which examines issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent gains in e-learning have empowered learners in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that elearning organizations must deal with more than ever because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can educators make sure that the quality control for these MOOC courses is passable? How can students be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Yale University to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding demand to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Teachers want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To respond to this crescive desideratum for details the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This dramatic new book also analyzes the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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