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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which studies issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New advances in online education technology enable humans in nations all aver the world to take courses 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 massive open courses are typically free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that distance learning institutions are struggling with now that elearning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations guarantee that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Solomon Islands to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. People want to understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing desire for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational issues. This book also reviews the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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