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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that analyzes subjects regarding open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent evolvements in digital education technology are empowering humans all over the world to be participants in online courses. These MOOC courses are normally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that distance learning institutions are dealing with today because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can we assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Netherlands to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a desire to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Professors and many other participants need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these important new open educational endeavours. Everybody wants to better understand how MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education subjects. This exciting new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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