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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which researches issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new developments in electronic educational technology enable learners all over the world to be participants in online courses. Massive open online courses are typically free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of topics that distance learning organizations must deal with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations assure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is all right? How can learners assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Canada to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these important new open education endeavours. Educators want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding need for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource subjects. This amazing new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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