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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest gains in elearning have enabled people all around the world to be participants in online courses. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that elearning organizations have to deal with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so quickly. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can educators ensure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can students ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to comprehend how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants want to better comprehend these interesting new open educational experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this expanding need for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education subjects. This inspiring new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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