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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews issues having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advancements in distance learning make it possible for people in every nation on earth to take online courses. These massive online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that online learning technology institutions are having to attend to today because learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of these massively open online courses is all right? How can participants make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we get a handle on low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding necessity to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these interesting new open educational undertakings. Everyone wants to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing desire for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This authoritative new book also considers the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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