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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which examines issues relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent advances in online learning technology have made it possible for learners all over the world to be participants in online classes. These massive open online courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that online learning institutions are having to attend to today because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is good? How can institutions certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions manage problems like inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a developing need to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders desire to better grasp these new open educational undertakings. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desire for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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