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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which examines topics related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent evolvements in distance learning are providing the means for humans all over the world to participate in classes online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that elearning technology organizations are having to attend to more than ever because distance learning technology is advancing so rapidly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can participants assure that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can participants certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more abundant there is a developing demand to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders desire to better perceive these exciting new open educational experiments. Universities want to comprehend how MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this developing need for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This stimulating new book also deals with the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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