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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which analyzes topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in online education technology are providing the means for students all around the world to participate in courses online. These online MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality control for these MOOC courses is passable? How can institutions guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What business models are being used by organizations like Khan Academy to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing necessity to be aware of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders would like to better grasp these intriguing new open educational experiments. Professors want to better understand how massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive desire for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This interesting new book also analyzes the major 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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