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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies issues relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in online education have empowered humans in nations all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. 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 online MOOCs are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online education organizations have to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can participants ensure that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What business models are being used by organizations like University of Utah to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle issues like low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing necessity to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants need to gain more knowledge about these compelling new open educational undertakings. Everyone wants to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this growing need for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education subjects. This scholarly new book also considers the key 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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