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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that addresses subjects relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest gains in learning technology have empowered people in all parts of the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that distance learning institutions have to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can we certify that the quality control for these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders desire to understand these important new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to know how these MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this increasing demand for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education issues. This definitive new book also addresses the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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