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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that articulates issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new evolvements in e-learning technology have empowered learners all around the world to take online courses. These online MOOC courses are almost always free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are several subjects that e-learning organizations have to struggle with today because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can educators be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is adequate? How can participants make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by institutions like University of Pittsburgh to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders manage inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a developing necessity to comprehend how massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants need to gain more knowledge about these significant new open educational experiments. Educators want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desideratum for information MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This new book also deals with the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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