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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which studies issues regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent changes in elearning technology are empowering humans in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are commonly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning organizations are having to struggle with today because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As online learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing desire to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Researchers want to know how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To meet this crescive desire for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This scholarly new book also considers the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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