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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses subjects pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advancements in online education technology make it possible for students all over the world to be participants 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 online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that distance learning organizations are having to consider more than ever because elearning technology is developing so fast. How can teachers ensure that the education provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Wesleyan University to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more procurable there is a expanding desideratum to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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