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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in distance learning technology have made it possible for people all over the world to take courses online. MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that elearning technology organizations are having to struggle with today because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders certify that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Svalbard to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants manage problems like low motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing necessity to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other participants need to understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Academics want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this crescive need for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This interesting new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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