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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which reviews issues regarding open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest improvements in electronic education technology are empowering learners in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. These MOOCs are free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that e-learning organizations are having to deal with now that e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like NovoEd to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle problems like low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders would like to better understand these new open education experiments. Everybody wants to grasp how MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this growing desire for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education topics. This authoritative new book also considers the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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