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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which describes topics relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in distance learning technology have empowered learners in nations all around the world to participate in online classes. MOOCs are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that e-learning institutions are having to attend to today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. How can educators certify that the quality of these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing demand to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Public servants want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this growing demand for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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