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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which studies issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in digital education technology are enabling people all around the world to be participants in online courses. These massive open courses are usually free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that online education organizations are struggling with today because distance learning technology is advancing so fast. How can educators assure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is respectable? How can participants ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like University of California, Berkeley to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations get a handle on inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more available there is a increasing desire to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about these interesting new open education experiments. Trainers want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this developing desire for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational subjects. This authoritative new book also describes the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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