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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which researches issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern improvements in e-learning have provided the means for humans all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that e-learning institutions are having to struggle with today because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can we ensure that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders certify that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Duke University to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants handle poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. People want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this expanding demand for information the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This interesting new book also articulates the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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