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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which discusses issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent developments in digital education technology enable people all over the world to be participants in classes online. MOOCs are typically free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that distance learning institutions have to consider more than ever because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can teachers make sure that the quality control for these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can participants be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Peer to Peer University to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we handle issues like inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more procurable there is a growing demand to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open education ventures. Everybody wants to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this desire for data MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This amazing new book also researches the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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