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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that researches issues having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern developments in elearning have made it possible for humans all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. MOOC classes are usually free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning technology institutions are having to struggle with today because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can participants be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Brown University to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desire to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Academics want to comprehend how MOOC courses can be improved. In response to this demand for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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