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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that examines issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern gains in digital education technology have provided the means for people all over the world to take courses online. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning organizations are having to deal with today because elearning technology is developing so fast. How can teachers certify that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants manage poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing demand to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants want to understand these important new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to know how massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing need for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This book also considers the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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