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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses topics having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in elearning technology have empowered learners in all parts of the world to take courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few topics that online learning technology institutions are dealing with in 2015 because learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of these massive open online courses is passable? How can institutions certify that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Khan Academy to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more available there is a developing need to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about these significant new open educational experiments. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding demand for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This exciting new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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