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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which researches subjects related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in elearning enable students in every nation on earth to take courses online. 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. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are several subjects that elearning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we certify that the quality of these MOOC courses is decent? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Khan Academy to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with low motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desire to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders would like to better grasp the outcomes of these important new open educational initiatives. Everybody wants to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this growing desire for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This gripping new book also describes the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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