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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that investigates issues regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advancements in distance learning are enabling people all around the world to be participants in online courses. MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online learning organizations have to consider now that elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can organizations ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a desire to be aware of how MOOC courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Instructors and many other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open educational endeavours. Scholars want to know how MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this developing need for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also investigates 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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