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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that researches issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. The latest improvements in e-learning have made it possible for humans in nations all around the world to participate in online courses. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massive open online courses are commonly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning technology organizations are struggling with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants certify that the quality of these massive open online courses is passable? How can participants ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by institutions like Benin to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators handle low student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how MOOC courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Academics and numerous other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Everybody wants to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive demand for facts the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This amazing new book also explores the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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