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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which reviews topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent evolvements in online education are enabling humans in every nation on earth to take online classes. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These MOOC courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that elearning technology organizations are struggling with today because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers assure that the quality of these MOOCs is passable? How can participants assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by organizations like University of Rochester to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders handle issues like poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education becomes more widespread there is a necessity to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to grasp how MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this growing need for details the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also discusses the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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