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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores issues regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest gains in distance learning have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to take courses online. These massive open courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a variety of topics that distance learning organizations are dealing with now that e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators be assured that the education provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can stakeholders assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like UC Berkeley to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers manage issues like low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing demand to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these new open educational endeavours. Corporations want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desire for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational topics. This intriguing new book also reviews the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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