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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that analyzes issues having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in distance learning have empowered students in nations all around the world to take courses online. These MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online education institutions are struggling with today because learning technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the training provided by these MOOCs is good? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like NovoEd to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more available there is a growing demand to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Professors want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this expanding need for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This dramatic new book also explores the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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