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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that deals with issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New changes in distance learning technology are empowering people in all parts of the world to take part in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These MOOC courses are typically free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that e-learning technology institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because learning technology is developing so quickly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can educators guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can participants assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Gambia to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these important new open educational ventures. Corporations want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive need for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This authoritative new book also considers the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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