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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers subjects relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Modern gains in technology-enhanced learning are providing the means for humans all around the world to participate in online classes. These MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants guarantee that the training provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can institutions certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle issues like low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Academics want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this expanding desire for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This dramatic new book also examines 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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