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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers issues pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. Brand new changes in elearning technology have enabled people in nations all around the world to take courses online. MOOC courses are commonly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are quite a few topics that elearning institutions are having to consider more than ever because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can educators assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more abundant there is a developing demand to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants need to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this developing desire for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational subjects. This authoritative new book also investigates the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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