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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern changes in electronic education technology are enabling students all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning technology organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can teachers assure that the training provided by these MOOCs is good? How can institutions guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators handle inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these open education initiatives. Everybody wants to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desire for information the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also talks about the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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