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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that analyzes issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent advances in online education enable students all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that e-learning technology institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because learning technology is developing so fast. How can teachers make sure that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can participants make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators handle issues like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants want to gain a better understanding of these promising new open education endeavours. Researchers want to understand how MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desire for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This stimulating new book also researches the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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