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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which investigates topics relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in electronic educational technology are enabling people all over the world to participate in courses online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These online MOOCs are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that e-learning organizations are dealing with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we guarantee that the training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can learners guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Miriada X to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions manage low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a need to comprehend how MOOCs are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these open education experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be improved. In response to this growing need for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This authoritative new book also discusses the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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