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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews topics having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in elearning are enabling people in all parts of the world to take part in classes online. These massive open online courses are typically free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that learning technology organizations are having to attend to today because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can participants assure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can participants guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like NovoEd to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more available there is a expanding desideratum to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these promising new open education experiments. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing desideratum for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This stimulating new book also studies the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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