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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that researches topics having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in electronic education technology are making it possible for people in every nation on earth to take classes online. MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that learning technology organizations are considering now that online education technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions be assured that the training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can institutions make sure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Northwestern University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of low student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these open education endeavours. Students want to grasp how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing desire for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational subjects. This new book also articulates the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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